Lifetime service award

This year I received the lifetime service award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. I had no clue until the glass award trophy showed up in my mail, because that happened before anyone told me about the award officially or unofficially. Anyway, I think I just received the award for doing my thing over the years. Not that I'm not grateful. I am! Just flabbergasted. If I stand out in any way it is for persistence.