Op-Ed: With our ski resort closed, we're working at a food bank and feeling all the emotions (via latimesopinion)
In our “Dispatches From the Pandemic” series, we bring you personal stories from people whose lives have been drastically altered by COVID-19.
I’m an office guy, and this is the hardest I’ve worked in a decade, if only for an hour and a half this day. Even though it is blustery and rainy, a classic Colorado spring, I am down to a T-shirt that I sweat through as I fill orders — add a bag of oranges, a bag of apples, a pound of hamburger and get the bag onto the table. Thumbs up from my blue-gloved hands, and the next car rolls in. It’s hard to feed a community. It’s hard, you know, when society collapses.
The workers and organizers are the corona-idled events team from the local ski resort — they get supplies from Food Bank of the Rockies. They typically host concerts in downtown Aspen and rowdy Bud Light-sponsored ski-jumping extravaganzas. Their event-planning skills transfer perfectly; a pivot from delivering pure entertainment to pure altruism. One manager rolls by on a mini-forklift, driving it like a go-cart.A longtime waitress at a local tavern stops to say hi from six feet away.
When our ski slopes and towns are again packed with carefree revelers, and even when we are older, we’ll remember the unique, closely observed world of COVID-19, when we had time to taste honey from a fallen tree. We’ll recall those cold spring mornings, when handing bags of oddly assorted food to gracious but hungry neighbors in a bitter rain was the greatest expression of love we had known.
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