Every seamstress has one. It is sharp, and small, and the equivalent of a chalkboard eraser. It is basically a tiny harpoon with a plastic or wooden handle. It is a seam ripper. When you sew the seam incorrectly, if the fabric allows, you can carefully tease out the thread and start over. Second chances are good.
I had to use one just last night on the toy project. It saves time in the long run to acknowledge your mistakes and go ahead and undo them. If you keep pressing forward, you may find in the end that the entire object or garment is unworkable. Then what will you do? Start over anyway, with a lot more to undo.
I think our consumerism is a bit like that. To our Depression era ancestors, it must have seemed alarming to base an economy post-WWII increasingly on consumer spending and debt, giving up our manufacturing and farming base to make a living... doing what? Shuffling papers? Selling each other stuff made elsewhere? Most of us are wired to want to make or grow things or to develop those talents in others. How many business majors do you know that are more excited about their curriculum (or the job afterward) than they are about other things in their lives? Talk to someone growing things, or fixing things, or making something with his/her own hands to sell, or even to enjoy at home- now there's excitement. They'll talk your ears off! Some college students and working people like what they do, but a lot are in it for the paycheck, so they can buy stuff- and that's where we've gone wrong. Even a sign over a door at the med school I attend says,"Put some green in your future"! A country can't thrive on the basis of money-mongering for long. Eventually we have to get back to our faith, our families, our homes. Give up the "me me me me" chorus started in the 70s and repeated by every generation since, and get back to God, get back to serving others, get back to what really matters. Then we will truly thrive. And what we create will last.
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