March 30, 2020
Monday.
Its been two weeks now since our world changed here in town. In Michigan. It seems a lot longer, feels longer. We’re still here, and I’m grateful for that. So many are not, what makes me special compared to them? I’m not. Sometimes fair just isn’t. Still don’t understand my world when I walk in the back door and it’s quiet. It’s unnatural, it’s incomplete, it’s missing. I don’t know what I am without you. I don’t know who I am without you?
People have been asking how we’re doing, how is People Helping People coming? The deli will be fine in the long run, if by sheer force of will from Kat and I, we will still be here. Gonna be underwater for a longtime, but it’s just money. It’s really just money, and I don’t care about it. I have never wanted to have all the sales, all the money, it’s irrelevant to me. Odd for a business owner to feel that way maybe, and please don’t tell the bank when I borrow a boat load to dig out of the hole. But I still don’t care. I care about paying the team here and providing for them. I care about you and making you these incredible new creations like flat bread with hummus and pecans and veggies. Thats the good stuff. That’s the reason I love my job. 50/50, we’re here for each other.
PHP, okay lets focus and wrap this up. Over the course of the week we gave out a lot of meals. Like I said, it’s just money. How do I put a price on someone’s life when they need a meal. It’s just wrong to view it that way. You all have been very kind, some have donated to help with the costs, and I appreciate you and your kindness to others. Yesterday was the first day we gave away more than we took in in sales. Good. Let’s do that again today. I’ll give it all away for free if it helps, if it makes a difference it’s right. It’s the right thing to do. The kind woman who came in late yesterday afternoon in tears, thanking us for the delicious meal that she couldn’t afford. No mam, thank you. Thank you. To the father who sent me a message about us feeding his family, thanking us for being there for them. No sir, thank you. Thank you.
Thank all of you. Your kindness to each other is the only way we get back up. The only way I get back up.
Today’s quote comes from Parson James, the song is Waiting Game.
There's a voice in my pillow that's got it out for me
Cause it keeps mumbling, mumbling
All through the night, I can't sleep
I've been patient, oh, a change gonna come
But that damn clock just don't stop ticking, ticking, ticking away
That's the storm
There’s just this waiting game
And I don’t know how to play
Its enough of a fight staying alive anyway