Generous

I was at a family reunion in beautiful Arizona and I noticed an excellent straw hat my aunt was wearing. I commented on the excellence of the hat to her and she took it off her head and handed it to me. She gave it to me. Wow. I wasn't complimenting the hat to get her to give it to me; I was just complimenting it. My aunt followed up the gift with a phrase that has bounced around my memory for years: "never suppress a generous thought". I think this is a great maxim to live by. If we can, we should give. We shouldn't run faster than we have strength, but we should diligently give. And my aunt's legacy lives on as that phrase encourages me to give more. Now I need to decide how to share my gluten-free dairy-free treats, if that is expected in the line of generous duty. Hmmm...