I have a theory that there’s been an uptick in kindness since the pandemic restrictions were put in place. And, quite often, the kindness hits home.
Here’s an example from my life:
Sometime soon, we’ll have sauce (aka spaghetti and meatballs), a dish for which my wife, Cindy Schmitt, is justifiably proud.
The most recent batch began with a ring of the doorbell. A woman I didn’t recognize handed me some parsley and basil. She said they were for my wife; I thanked her and, confused, went back inside.
Turns out the woman had been walking by one day and stopped to chat with Cindy, who was in the front yard.
They discussed online grocery shopping, which we’ve been doing for months. There are always items that can’t be found. By way of example, Cindy told the woman she was missing parsley and basil, key ingredients to her sauce. (The parsley and basil go in both the meatballs and tomato sauce. You simmer them for hours. Give it a try.)
You guessed it. On her own, the woman bought the parsley and basil and gave it to us.
And what of the meat in the meatballs? There’s kindness there, too.
Every Sunday since the pandemic hit, our friend Allison Chanler has texted us and asked if we’re out of any groceries. (Our friend Victor Van Vliet has kept us supplied, as well.) Cindy asked Allison to get the meat loaf mix for the meatballs. And so, she did.
I’ll add that the recipe for the sauce originally came from the late Angie Chiara of Geneseo. Her sauce was legendary.
If you’re keeping score at home, it should be clear that at least four women, one of whom is no longer with us, are involved in this week’s sauce. And the sauce will feed, among others, Emily Morgan, Cindy’s daughter, and her husband, Drew Mokris, as well as their two young daughters, Franny and Margot.
We spend time together with them now after weeks apart, having sufficiently quarantined ourselves by, among other things, not going into grocery stores.
It’s lovely to see all of them in person, and I take pleasure from the simplest things, like watching the girls try the meatballs. When they’re older, I’ll tell about them the sauce during the pandemic, how it blended parsley, basil, tomato sauce and meatballs, but the key ingredient was kindness.
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From his home in Livingston County, retired senior editor Jim Memmott will document the new normal of living in a socially distant world. He can be reached at jmemmott@gannett.com or write Box 274, Geneseo, NY 14454.
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