Wednesday May 20, 2009
thoughtful people are good
I have a lovely friend who sends the best mail. Recently she sent a big box full of wonderful things and in that box was a big bag of walnuts from her tree. Walnuts get a bad rep because of the horrid rancid ones you get in those little plastic bags in the baking aisle - but fresh walnuts! Mmmm - so sweet and creamy-textured.
The chain of thoughtfulness:
Emma thought of me and mailed me walnuts.
I received them and was pleased.
I spent a delightful half hour with my eldest son, cracking them open and pulling them out of their husks and sorting them.
Then the walnuts became:
-an earthy walnut/mushroom pesto on pasta
-a couple of batches of maple/walnut/cinnamon muffins
-a batch of afghan biscuits
-a yummy addition to my daily sandwich
One bag of walnuts meant a whole lot of happy. Thank you, dear Emma.
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Another thoughtful person I know is my husband. He doesn’t get to cook dinner much because I tend to have it under control by the time he returns from work.
But every morning he makes me a flat white coffee that would put any barista to shame.
He makes sour dough bread, delicious pizzas on the weekend, once or twice a year (not more than that - because they are TOO delicious, if you know what I mean) he makes me my favourite yeasted chelsea buns.
And sunday mornings - lovely thin, better-than-any-cafe pancakes.
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Thoughtful people are good. Invite some into your life.
Become one.