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I ducked out from my email for two days and came back in to a massive surprise. Since then I've written this note....five times now?....yeah, this is draft five, tweaked and fussed over until it bears no relationship to the original except for the words thank you.
I struggle with proper thank yous. How to combine gratitude, humility, a dash of humor or wit, and a bit of gravitas while the insides are doing a little Snoopy-happy-dance and the heart is trying to enlarge itself enough to appreciate the gift's magnitude? That struggle is made much harder when the gift is such a great one and has come completely out of the blue.
If I were more prominent, it might not have been such a shock, but I'm definitely a small fish in large pond kind of creature. So yes, you surprised me. Surprised and delighted me.
Thank you, whoever you are, for your great kindness and generosity. I may not know your identity and won't, unless you tell me, but you have all my thanks. I'll do my best to live up to the trust the honor you've given me implies.
Have a wonderful holiday and new year. And again, thank you.