The Kindness of a Special Treat

"This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive."
~ Alice Waters 

I recently attended a meeting with colleagues whom I see two or three times a year.  The last time that we were together (five months before), I had been especially excited about the dessert at one of our meals -- chocolate-covered pretzels.  I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the colleagues in charge of ordering our meals had remembered my fondness for that particular treat and ordered it again.