When I go to the Coop and ask for clothesline cable, the hardware clerk has to scratch her head for a moment to think where the clothesline parts are located. At the end of aisle seven just waiting for me to arrive after all these years. And there are all the working parts, unchanged for more than 50 years. The simple, but beautiful, undervalued parts of this machine. What are the other things our lives that are like that simple clothesline?
There is a simple robust beauty in the workings of a clothesline and its parts. It’s one of those underappreciated things in life. Whoever thinks about a clothesline until that inevitable moment when you are pinning the last piece of laundry onto the line and it snaps? It may have been ten years or more of sitting in the sun, rain, wind and frost, slowly deteriorating the plastic outer coating of the cable underneath and one day it just breaks at the weakest point.
When I go to the Coop and ask for clothesline cable, the hardware clerk has to scratch her head for a moment to think where the clothesline parts are located. At the end of aisle seven just waiting for me to arrive after all these years. And there are all the working parts, unchanged for more than 50 years. The simple, but beautiful, undervalued parts of this machine. What are the other things our lives that are like that simple clothesline?
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