Repairs

This story showed up yesterday: "Psychology says fathers who fix broken things instead of replacing them are not being cheap: Why repairing objects becomes their way of protecting memories, purpose and family"

It talks about being useful, sense of purpose, protection, and so on.

What came to my mind immediately was that not just people and pets, but the things we bring into the family become our responsibility. It isn't just a matter of memories associated with that old clock. It's part of our lives now, and we owe a certain care to the things we own.

We tend to look down on people who don't care for their things, don't we?

Some of us even feel a little obligation to care for the commons too.