May 8th Newsletter

We know Rhode Island is officially "Testing the Water", but we are not yet willing to Rock the Boat. So we'll be staying curbside pick-up/delivery only for the foreseeable future, for your sake as well as ours. What has changed about this virus that would allow us to open our doors to the public now? Nothing, as far as we can tell. It's still exceedingly contagious, it sticks to surfaces, there's no vaccine, and no treatment. So: no thank you. But we understand the inconvenience of all of this, we get it if some of you are frustrated by our fortress; we would love nothing more than to let you in! It just doesn't make sense right now...honestly we have no idea when it will. Good thing you can shop from the convenience of home! And you are always welcome to call or email us with questions or for/with suggestions; we can stay connected through all this, even if it's not ideal. Just don't ask us to Zoom!

In the "things are still weird" department, May is exceptionally weird around here. We've grown accustomed to the frenzied pace of graduation parties and reunions, of the sounds and smells of our little neighborhood...of the BYOBs, and lines for coffee, bike shop scavenger hunts, street fairs, and sidewalk sales. Those things are suspended between two worlds, as memories and aspirations...We'll get back there, someday. Until we do, we need to make the most of the place we're at now. This is life, isn't it? And as the song that's been stuck in our heads for months now says, it's going by fast...