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Dear Mr. Zevon,
I have not been the correspondent I had hoped to be, not yet. Each day has had its share of awe-inspiring moments whether or not I took the time to share them with you. For today, the opportunity to work. And to enjoy the fruits of that labor – a large piece of pumpkin pie that came home with me. While we are talking about pumpkin pie, I want to send thanks to the inventor of such a thing. Now there is a good (the only good) use of pumpkin pie spice!
YHS,
Midnight Snack

Dear Mr. Zevon,

The word grateful doesn’t really do it for me, so I am going to find another word that better expresses the feeling of awe. Oh, that’s it, awe. Awe leads me to wonder. And on to wonderful. And that is how we want to feel, full of wonder. Not all the time – that would be too much – just regularly. Say, about as often as we eat a sandwich.

Just how often DO we eat sandwiches? Well,  Smithsonian Magazine says “approximately 49 percent of all Americans over 20 years old eats one sandwich per day”. Mighty fine average.

For today: The wonder of the smooth, white-barked sycamore trees, leaflessly regal,  on the drive up the George Washington Parkway along the Potomac River.

Yours truly and in awe,

Midnight Snack

Dear Mr. Zevon,

You are probably very busy up there in heaven and cannot get to your mail. That’s okay. I need you way more than you need me.

In the effort to enjoy every sandwich, as instructed by you and by anyone sane, and as understood by me intellectually, I am starting a gratefulness/happiness/joyfulness/life-affirming/allrightalready journal. Now. And addressing it to you as the originator of the enjoy-every-sandwich perspective.

For today: A little time to read the Times magazine’s food issue. Did you happen to see those amazing pictures by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari?

Your devoted fan,

Midnight Snack