I wrote a diary recently to thank everyone who was so kind to donate to my recovery from surgery fund. I put it in as many other diaries as I could because I didn’t want to miss saying thank you to anyone who had helped me.
Some of my friends who are not on Daily Kos thought I should send each person an email. I tried to explain that there is a high level of anonymity here. When people donated through PayPal, I think I then had their email, but it didn’t seem polite to use it.
Some of the donations to me came by mail. Some with address’s, some without. Some came in an envelope with a business name stamped as the return address but came from a different state than the return address. As if, someone really didn't want me to know who sent the money.
I respected that anonymity, so wrote a thank-you diary in hopes of catching as many folks as I could to say thank you. What would you have done?
In real life, I like to send thank you cards. I like to receive them also. I like picking out the cards and writing out my thanks on them.
I have some friends who are very picky about that. To them, a text is not a thank you, a phone call won’t do, an email is almost a proper thank you, but really only a card will do. I also have a friend who does not want thank you cards under any circumstances.
Too bad, I send them anyway. For one friend I go to great lengths, I send the card to someone I know in another state. I have them write her address (so she won’t recognize the handwriting) and have them mail it from their state. She fusses about my doing that, but I think she likes it.
One type of thank you that I didn’t learn until I was an adult is to thank people who ask how you are doing. “Thanks for asking”. It’s such a cool thing to do and gives a nice warm fuzzy to the person asking.
This is the Itzl Alert Network.
(Itzl is the name of the dog in the picture.)
We publish a diary here every day,
just before midnight.
This group is here for us to check in with each other,
to let people know we are alive,
and doing OK.