Recycling and DIY are our national sports...and they are high impact sports.Things must be passed down from generation to generation and getting the tools and materials to repair them can be a big challenge. Not just because of the cost, you simply may not find them. Even so, it is done, repaired, recycled, as if we were magicians. Human creativity is infinite and necessity stimulates it greatly.
Long life to your outdoor furniture!!!
They should put recycling in the Olympics, Cuba would win gold!
I agree with what you say about human creativity and inventiveness, it's why humans have excelled above other species I guess, but can also be our downfall, after all, it was a human who can eup with consumerism and ways to promote it...and down that path lays a dim future.
As dark as the blackouts I've been suffering these last two days. I went to visit my mother, in the town 45 km from Havana. Of 24 hours, only 12 with electricity. And observing human behavior, some complain and others see a creative opportunity to face the dark hours.
We made shadow Theater with the children. Readings and dramatization of stories and poems. As soon as the electricity arrived, everyone went to their homes, turned on devices and lived in the solitude of technology. We need a balance....