Sometimes I am asked if I ever dread “having” to make a pie. Perhaps it’s hard for some people to believe that I really look forward to making a pie everyday. But I don’t have to make a pie a day… I get to make a pie a day. It’s my choice and privilege to do this… and that makes all the difference.
How could you not look forward to telling someone that you care about them? For that’s what I am doing. But instead of using the phone or a Hallmark card to do that, I am mixing flour and butter to make a crust, cutting fruit and tossing it with sugar for a filling and baking it all in an oven turned to 375. An hour or so later out comes a piping hot, golden brown pastry, filled with as much love as I could squeeze in.
Nine months ago when I began this project, the following words were a part of my very first post:
I’ve long been a fan of the book/movie “Like Water for Chocolate”. In this film the lead character is a wonderful cook who infuses the foods that she prepares with the emotions that she is feeling at the time. I hope to infuse the pies that I make with love and good wishes to all that receive them.
Pie a Day Give Away 
You are such a lovely person! Reading your blog every morning makes me feel so good, because friendship and caring seeps out of every word, and so bad, because I know I could never do what you do…
Caroline..
Keep the good feelings and toss out the bad… you don’t need to do what I do. It’s a huge undertaking for someone to commit to do anything everyday, much less make a pie. But I have had a few people tell me that they have been inspired to make one pie for a friend… and another shared how she reached out to a new neighbor (which was brave for her). I can see how it might be like a row of dominoes – one touching the other as they fall until everyone has been included.
Yes I can see that, and maybe that’s what I shall do. Just one. I find “real” human contact a bit difficult, as talkative as I am on the web!
Karen, you’re making the world a better place one pie at a time ( cornie I know but I just had to say it). You are a great inspiration. 🙂
Connie,
Sweet words. Thank you.
I loved this post!!
That means a lot to me…