Bad Times, Good Deeds and Slices of Pizza

These last few weeks have been a struggle, and it’s likely the struggle will continue for many days to come.

COVID-19 is all over the place — literally and figuratively. It’s infected our community and collective conscience. We’re bombarded every day by brooding headlines detailing the exponential spread of this unrelenting, unbiased, ugly menace. Times are, well, bad.

But as formidable as COVID-19 is, it cannot mute the power of good that lives in all of us.

In Douglas County, we’re no stranger to the power of good. We witnessed it in the wake of the UCC shooting, during Snowmageddon and so many times before. Unsurprisingly, good is again pushing back, this time against an invisible foe.

Whether you’re staying home, making masks, social distancing, teaching students remotely, working in the intensive care unit or emergency room, FaceTiming your grandparents, or feeding the hungry and the heroes — slice of pizza by slice of pizza — you’re the good.

Sam Gross, owner of Loggers Tap House, is serving up those slices of pizza through his Feed It Forward program. So many others are contributing good in their own ways.

On behalf of a grateful community, thank you for the good you are doing. And make no mistake, good will win.