Current | Alpine Hat

Look, I appreciate all this market data stuff. Really, I do. I know you have a business to run. And you’re doing your best. But all I did was buy a hat. It’s blue with flowers. In eight years it’ll belong to a pile of hats at Goodwill. Or maybe it’ll blow away in a gale, coming to rest under a car. The car will leave. The snow will come. The plow will shove it into oblivion. Or maybe it gets used every single day by the eighty-year-old woman to whom I gave it as a gift. This is very likely because she lives well below the poverty line and her old hat was shredded beyond the bounds of decency. She sleeps on the floor next to a space heater. She’s burly now, but someday soon she will pass. We did nothing for her except giving her a reasonably warm and decently decorated hat. Still, it’s only a hat.

I wear these hats all the time in the winter and love the warmth and colors they offer.

a gift for my cousin Kate who grew up in VT and has been living in AK for yrs. Chose the VT green alpine hat. She teaches adaptive ski school at Alyeska and loves her hat.