The idea, says Samuel Sachs II, director of the Frick, is to expose its audience to works from museums a little off the beaten path, a generous gesture not to be sneezed at even by culturally mobile New Yorkers.
They oppose the spiritually generous viewpoint that many paths lead to God and that there could be honest diversity within the same religion.
Even three years before its initial public debut, the park – designed by the landscape architect James Corner and his firm Field Operations – is exuberantly bucolic, with its generous vistas, scenic walking paths and a bird watching tower atop a swath of wetlands, where dragonflies and swallows and perhaps, still, the occasional pigeon, can be seen amidst the trees and tall grasses.
Out to lunch with a friend one day in 1969, the British novelist Barbara Pym was doing what she always did — gathering details of the life around her as if they were jewels dropped in her path by a generous deity.
Although I went to Wake Forest University on a very generous scholarship, I took the path of stay-at-home mother.
From the Buddhist perspective, generous giving is an essential path to awakening; through the practice of giving we expand our hearts and get more insight into the interconnectedness of all.
Ours is a path illuminated by a generous light.
Others came as asylum seekers, attracted by the relative ease of crossing borders within the European Union, their paths eased by a generous system of state support for migrants.
That's a fair approach, but better still would be a far broader deal that gives immigrants multiple legal paths into the country, is generous in reuniting families and legalizes millions of valuable workers who are already here.
Being generous with support even if they change paths or do not measure up to some idealized version of what you thought they should become.
