Silicone

I used to wonder why everything at Walmart, Ikea, Target, and so forth were called consumables .  It  finally dawned on me this afternoon when I was putting all the patio furniture in the shed for the winter. Nothing lasts forever,  plastic cracks, materials fades, metals corrode, items break, things get old and fall apart.   We are all in a constant state of consumption, always replacing everything we bought before so it's new and colorful and clean and fresh.  A little silicone can help to hold things together, it keeps the water out, seals the cracks, fills the holes, but at the end everything finds it's way to the dump and someone, somewhere is at The Home Depot buying something new, a replacement, a newer model, fresh, clean and colorful.  AND SO IT GOES!