When Blank Cards Aren't Blank

I wanted to send a card to an acquaintance who'd had breast surgery.

I decided against the "Get Well" cards. She's not exactly sick. Sometimes I send the cards that are filed under the "Encouragement" tab, but I have to know the person pretty well. Otherwise, I'm afraid that my encouragement might come off as been-there-done-that-now-I'm-a-know-it-all which would so not be cool.

Finally, I picked out a blank card. OK, that should work.

When I got home, I started to sign the card and noticed -in the inside, in itsy bitsy print -a slogan about finding true happiness in the journey rather than in the destination. Ha! Not this time.

Fortunately, I wasn't as rushed when I signed the card as I'd been when I bought it . If I'd have sent that card, my acquaintance would surely have suspected that chemo had destroyed each of my common sense brain cells.