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The strap of my dress snapped a few years ago and then in minutes I sewed it back on and felt a satisfaction so profound that it had to be Ancient and Just. If you don’t know how to mend it, someone does… COBBLERS are REAL!!!!! I’ve seen them with my eyes and they have re-birthed my shoes like Gods on Earth. Mass consumption has us addicted to buying and discarding but I highly recommend repairing your shit - relationships too! My uncle who doesn’t shut up once told me that “life is all about maintenance” (genius) so I forgave him for being the way that he is!
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patching a hole in pants, taking shoes to the cobbler, replacing a watch battery. it feels so nice to fix something that is broken
Feb 28, 2024
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i’m a truly awful sewer but i managed to fix up some straps on a couple tops and i’m happy i’ll get to wear them a while longer
May 8, 2024
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When I was little, and throughout college, any time I ripped my comforter, or burned a cigarette hole in a shirt, or wore down the shoulder of my coat, my mother would mend it for me. I always felt bad - like I should have been more careful in the first place. she would still do it if I asked these days, but I try not to. I want for her to do more for herself, rather than for me.
now I do mending for my job - not clothes but art, though I mend my own clothes myself now. Recently my friend showed me a papier mache sculpture he made as a child which had become very dented and torn over the years. for his birthday, I am fixing it with my art conservation skills. It will take a long time.
I have been thinking of why the mending is love. I think it is some thing about care being poured into the longevity and wholeness of objects which are representative of their owners. it is very easy to be selfish with the gift of nimble hands- of all three possible actions (creation, destruction, maintenance) I think maintaining is the hardest and least exciting, but the most vital. It is the same thing we do for ourselves - to continue to be whole every day, to eat, to sleep, to comb our hair. It is the same as mending I think.
Jan 10, 2025
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Robert Moses State Park is open in the winter, and if you go on a weekday you’ll probably have the entire beach to yourself and a few fishermen. Great for a contemplative walk wherein you mull things over spiritually. Towards sunset, can start to feel like you’ve reached the end of the earth and are about the meet God. Bring a blanket, some grapes and your copy of The Power Broker.
Apr 4, 2024
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The best movie theater in New York seats 35. See a movie here you know nothing about and you will be inspired. For me most recently it was a screening of Dave Wascavage’s Suburban Sasquatch. Simple Town has been lucky enough to play videos here twice. The first night was packed, the second night we sold two tickets, and both nights were perfect.
Apr 4, 2024
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Peter Capusotto is an Argentinean comedian who was active in the 90’s and 2000’s. Over there he’s very well known. Sometime in the 2000’s he had a sketch comedy radio show, and the sketches he had on that show are really really funny. But it’s all in spanish.
Apr 4, 2024