Bittner and Twisted

Covid-19 is about change. It’s environmental and social change.  The byproduct is financial change.   Attacking the financial will lead us nowhere.  So where will we be in 12-18 months?   Where do I hope we’ll be and how do I think we will get there and have we learnt from the past?   The past?  9/11, hole in the ozone? Wars, GFC and Climate Change?  All have a commonality.   People and environment in crisis. And taking the wrong path at the wrong time.  An isolated world lacking strong empathy for others and the environment or a will to help.   We should have had communities working together to solve their problems. Building local sustainable lives for generations to come. Not just for our immediate future or for our retirement. But alas this didn’t happen. “The sins of the fathers are felt unto the seventh generation”.  This pretty much sums up where we are at now.   (And I relise that this comes from Exodus 20:5 ...

I’m grateful.  I’m a hospitality worker. I have ongoing employment. I think someone called it a corona proof job.  We’ll see.  I’m cleaning up my place of work though, packing the cafe away for the foreseeable future.   We are closed for a couple of weeks.  I'm putting items in the freezer with the hope that I’ll use them one day soon. Cooking off the veggies for staff meals or to freeze as a base for a future menu item.  I know I will use it, trusting in the process to take its course.   I have to remain pragmatic, resourceful and resilient. Exercising hope.   Knowing that there will be customers and food again.   Knowing it will be different and messy.   Well the normal chaos really. My rhythm is shot though.   My motivation to do things gone.  As yours would be too.  A hospitality worker is a human who thrives on contact, engagement.  With people.   With food and drinks.   Try do that with soci...