![]() ![]() Texas notes: Not All Who Wander Are Lost.Strange interlude 2013: Monopoly tokens born in C.COVID grief: ‘Did he know I loved him?’.Don’t dodge COVID only to get hit by guilt.Even medical staff worry about taking vaccine.A crater in the heart of the neighborhood.There’s still Irish soda bread and Eugene O’Neill.Yup, got myself vaccinated, but won’t say how.Silence can be more than just complicity.What is the state’s most dangerous job?.Moral failure the go-to move for Chicago City Council.Flashback 2003: Go straight to the top to fulfill.Office sings its siren song as vaccine spreads.I didn’t expect ‘doom’ to be so exhausting.I just find it heartbreaking - a lifetime of hard work just gone. This place, where you were lucky to find a seat at lunchtime, looking like a ghost town. They were closed for inside service, but a few people were there for take-out. Last year, around April/May, I was out and stopped at Manny's Deli for a to-go pastrami sandwich. A restaurant owned by the brother of a guy I went to grammar school in the 50s just closed his place which has been around at one location of another in the south suburbs for maybe 50 years. I just find stories like this one so sad. Can't just go find another serving or bartender job when so many restaurants are closed. Had something like this happened then, we would have been lost. You work so hard, the waitresses, the cooks to earn a living. My family owned a small steak-house restaurant on the south side in the 50s an 60s. I'm embarrassed to state the obvious, that the horrendous loss of lives in this pandemic is so awful, but I have a particular sadness for the loss of so many restaurants and jobs in the last year. As the Times put it, "The loss of Jing Fong hurts." Having only gone once, I couldn't develop too much of an attachment, and am more grateful I got there than sad it's gone, which is probably the best way to approach all loss. ![]() It's certainly a calamity for restaurant workers and owners, and to the community who celebrated their birthdays and wedding there, not to forget the precious fabric of ordinary daily life. Though it too is a loss, and no need to weigh each against the other. Honestly? With 527,000 Americans dead, at first it seems squishy to mourn a restaurant, like raising a monument to the pets lost in World War II. The splendid one Michelin star Thai place, Uncle Boon's, was the first. It's the second restaurant we went to that weekend to go belly up due to COVID. There was a big tribute in the Times, " Closing of Beloved Dim Sum Hall Leaves a ‘Crater’ in Reeling Chinatown: I didn't think about Jing Fong again until this week, when the largest restaurant in New York's Chinatown closed forever last Sunday. ![]()
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