Generosity is essential to your personal relationships
Any personal relationship that you conduct with a scorecard in the back of your mind is doomed…. Guaranteed. A loving relationship with a spouse or partner will endure and grow only when you live generously (and consistently) together. Always give more than your ‘fair share’ and the relationship will flourish. Never keep a scorecard or your relationship will descend into a series of transactions, and nothing more.
Parenting is an act of Generosity
The same can be said of parenting. Caring for a child at any and every age is an act of generosity: you must GIVE your attention to the child, fully. You must SEE the child and shape yourself to his or her needs. I’ve tried writing a bit about parenting in Love Notes.
Love (is Generosity)
David and I wrote a book about our efforts to live generously with one another. It was quite a learning experience. We’ve been trying for 55 years and counting. Generosity and love are virtually indistinguishable in our judgment, as I learned from Elie Wiesel. Do not judge, do not reject, do not hate, ever.
I wrote about experiencing the love (generosity) of my grandmother when I was a little kid in Of Cheese and Choices, and I retold the story in Love Notes.
