Maybe in the beginning I was over-generous and thinking that it was a virtue, but I learned the hard way it isn't a virtue.
Generous Japanese friends, thinking it would make me feel at home, took me out to English-style cream teas with scones in dainty Japanese cafes, which were on reflection far better than the expensive cream teas I have paid for in London since.
Though this exhibition is meant to recall MoMA's earlier landmark show of Latin American design in 1955 it was in fact the Italian show that it recalled for me: the undulating shapes, the innovative fenestration, the attempt to meld outside and inside, the modernist ethic being overtaken by generous new thinking -- and the influx of so many talented architects in NY.
I sifted the bills through my hands, tens and twenties, fives — a lot of fives — and surprisingly few singles, thinking how generous my co-workers were, how good and real and giving, but I was grieving all the same, grieving beyond any measure I could ever have imagined or contained.
It is time to adopt a more generous, less fearful way of thinking about our day laborers.
"60?," I offered back, thinking that's generous.
When we're engaged in self-care and connected to our wisdom, thinking in such generous ways becomes a natural expression of who we are.
Polling suggests that the proportion thinking this over-generous rose from a quarter to over half in the decade to 2012.
I say "thinking," but that's generous.
