HELPING OTHERS,HELPING MYSELF

Staff prepares fresh meals with donations from gofundme.com. I heard them tell one couple looking for lunch that they were closed to normal business

There was a point early in the quarantine where I started to feel utterly useless, like staying home and following instructions from three different schools wasn’t enough. I had moved past being sad that I obviously wasn’t going to be able to follow moms and tell an amazing visual story of how hard it is to be a mom, but I’d seen one too many news reports about the good things other people were doing. Then a Volunteer Match email arrived and suddenly I was ready to drop off meals for front line workers.

Quantum Leap is a vegetarian restaurant on Thompson Street in Manhattan whose owner joined with Love2Yeu and Nailing It for Healthcare to raise money to provide fresh hot meals. While I waited for them to finish preparing and boxing 300 meals for my group, I walked around alone and see the world. I had an hour to myself!

Front line workers at the Trauma 1 Center in Queens received the boxes I picked up

No brunch at this time...

No coffee today

This one looked open

Walking the neighborhood, waiting for boxes

The mayor gets a mask

Empty trays in the middle of a weekday

Another Thompson Street restaurant