Week of May 30, 2022 Small World Seafood Update

Hello everybody!! I hope everyone is having so much fun on this holiday weekend! So many people cooking up lobster tails, soft shell crabs, salmon, pizzas for themselves and for their families and friends...

All the fish markets were closed yesterday so I have no idea what is in store for the fish this week. I will get a better idea once fish starts to come into the markets today and tomorrow morning. No matter, though.

Instead of thinking about the future, though, I think I will sit in the present for a bit. I am actually writing you from Chicago sitting in my sister's house. It is so wonderful to connect to someone you love, isn't it? Seeing our families have fun together, the teenagers going to the lake together, the adults talking about whatever,..

But it is the food that seems to be playing the central role. Funny thing. I shipped my sis a bunch of seafood a couple of months back and she still had a frozen octopus which I ended up cooking myself! Small world stuff, huh?

You know, it is moments like these that can transform the mood. Seeing what is going on around the world can be downright depressing. War, shootings, discord, slaps, fear, fatigue..The psychological after effects of Covid are too close to all of us to really get a sense of what they are doing to us.

But as I sit here with people I love, I find myself often referencing this beautiful community of Small World that I belong to. For two years, while the world was in emotional arrest, we clung together with emails, videos, stories, pictures, humor and, the one thing that binds us all together, food.

And it is not only the food that we all cook and share week in and week out, it is the smiles you share with us, the patience you offer us, the graciousness with which you show your appreciation...

It is too easy to look around the world and come to the conclusion that there is a conspiracy out there designed to make us unhappy and defeat our spirits. But from where I've been living for the past two years, I can tell you that I may have uncovered a far greater, more powerful conspiracy secretly at work designed to make us happy.

It is called, 'our community'. We live in an amazingly beautiful city with amazingly beautiful people who are not afraid to show their love. In the end, the most powerful antidote to the madness around us is, well, love. I know it sounds cheesy but, hey, my wife always calls me CB...cheeseball, so there you go. As far as believing in delusions of conspiracies, I would rather focus on the loving on and not the hateful one. Hey, it's my delusion...

And love doesn't have to come in terribly showy ways. As far as I am concerned, it all starts with human decency. The way I see and feel it, human decency is like a kiss on the cheek or a warm embrace. It is a simple show of love for another human being. It is what the world needs more of but it starts with us and it can be infectious.

Anyway, all I am saying is that the madness around us doesn't have to turn us all into madmen and madwomen. And we can't let it either. And we won't, right? Why? Because we are a community and we watch out for each other. We are gracious to each other. We care about each other.

So, enjoy the people around you this long week and appreciate the gifts of their love. We'll talk about fish another time...

Look out for the order form Wednesday at 11am for Fairmount/444 N 4th St

Or Thursday at 9am for Fitler/Rittenhouse/Washington Sq

Peace

Robert Amar

Small World Seafood

Owner