Perhaps it is the peanut butter

Perhaps it IS the peanut butter.

“’Xenial’ is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers….I know that having a good vocabulary doesn’t guarantee that I’m a good person….But it does mean I’ve read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

–Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

Today marks at least 53 weeks of a Sunday morning paper–and–flowers arranged in an Adams 100% Natural peanut butter jar.

Well–mostly flowers. They have also delivered–among other things–a flowering cactus, bamboo shoots, and even a hippopotamus.

~grin~

And by ‘they’ I mean: The Peanut Butter Bunch.

[I have a sneaking suspicion that this bunch likes peanut butter.

I can only surmise from the amount of empty jars I’ve collected that more than one person is participating

that one person is consuming creamy peanut butter at a dizzying pace.]

This is 25 of the 53 different gifts that have been left on our porch–almost, almost half.

It’s astonishing, really.

I’ve been trying and trying to think of something I do [or have done] for anyone

–that is outside of my family,

–consistently,

–anonymously,

–without recognition/reward/payment of any kind,

–with a great deal of sacrifice

[freezing temperatures would have kept me from delivering anything to anyone several times],

–and for 53 consecutive weeks.

I came up with nothing, nada, zero, zilch, niente.

~sigh~

When I grow up–like by tomorrow–I’d like to be better at giving.

Maybe it IS the peanut butter.

Perhaps it is the peanut butter

Perhaps it IS the peanut butter.

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