"Just realized that getting #money isn’t really a part of my #dream for my #future. I can see clearly into a parallel #world, where #neighbors share #gardens and #food and #books. A #web of #generosity we all hold up, where we let no one go #hungry, #thirsty or cold. I do not dream for money or a #job. I dream of human connection, and creating art. Capitalism obscures the HUMAN desire we’ve always had inside to live in community with another. The American dream is a lie"

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/792737923231514624

An era of budget cuts and tax changes is a test for American generosity. Yet the spirit of giving finds its way. #budgetCuts #poverty #generosity https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0811/When-the-going-gets-tough-the-tough-give

Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor

@3goodthings

1) My teenage son, who has been working as a lifeguard for a couple of years, saved a swimmer in distress for the first time. He told me how his training kicked in, and I felt so proud of him.

2) A thoughtful colleague is going out of her way to help me with a professional difficulty.

3) This Studio Choom video of VIVIZ looking so elegant in their black outfits as they perform "La La Love Me" renews the joy I take in being a fan of Kpop:

VIVIZ -- La La Love Me -- STUDIO CHOOM ORIGINAL
https://youtu.be/WJ_EJM5NT6E?si=kyUIsudAynTrd14l

#goodnews #inspiring #travel #kindness #community #humanity #luck #generosity #Australia

Tourists Stranded After Kangaroo Crash Receive 23 Days of ‘Unforgettable’ Help from Loving Locals

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tourists-stranded-after-kangaroo-crash-receive-23-days-of-unforgettable-help-from-loving-locals/

#goodnews #business #generosity #kindness #smallbusiness #California #USA

Dry Cleaner Gives Away his Services to Unemployed Folks Headed to Job Interviews: ‘Just Pay it Forward’

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hell-dry-clean-your-shirt-if-youre-unemployed-and-going-to-a-job-interview-just-pay-it-forward-he-asks/

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. #Generosity

#Trump's destructive incoherent #tariffs based on trade surplus as a proxy, this is unsound, has Trump never heard of comparative advantage? These measures directed at making the richest Americans richer. The poor will suffer, US citizens will suffer from rising business costs, increased inflation. #StandwithUkraine #peace #internationalism #generosity

On the gifts we think we've given and the ones we don't know we received.

A thread on gratitude… and power.

1/21

#Hierarchy #Society #Meritocracy #Success #Competing #Generosity #Gratitude #ActuallyAutistic (me)

A T Beaune reads ‘A Visit from Saint Nicholas’ or ‘The Night Before Christmas’ (1823)
attributed to Henry Livingston, Jr (1748–1828) and Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)

200th Anniversary 1823–2023
https://youtu.be/_vWdggpz3kA

What if there was one day a year which was "boost extra-generously Day", on #Mastodon? Like you should intend to boost at least 50 things that day, just to ensure everyone who needs it can break out of a "Boosting-Scrooge" mentality?

Just like #Thailand has Songkran - and everyone goes wild soaking each other with water - I think Mastodon needs a similar predictable day where everyone goes wild with the boosts.

Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #Dexter MI USA 11/2024 - Title:
"Seth always uses his last piece of
candy as a tiny piñata for his
friends"
"Seth benutzt sein letztes Stück
Süßigkeiten immer als kleine
Piñata für seine Freunde"
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #3DArt #Raccoon #Ant #Generosity

A story about harming oneself by misplaced generosity

"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcutter_and_the_Trees

open the borders of your heart…

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/03/23/open-the-borders-of-your-heart/

~j
️

“Generosity and kindness remind us that we are interconnected and rely on others. No one—and I do mean no one—is ‘self made.’”

My latest newsletter is on generosity, kindness, and success: https://thorncoyle.beehiiv.com/p/generosity

#FindingTheRightWords turns 2 today. Here I am w/my co-author #Dr.BruceMiller, a #doctor whose #empathy, #knowledge, and #generosity knows no bounds. That my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's couldn't be changed, but writing the #memoir w/ Bruce changed me, helping to put that experience of profound fragmentation (my father's; mine) into something a little more whole. W/so much gratitude to Bruce and the many #neurologists working to #EndAlz always and esp. during #worldalzheimersmonth

The week begins.

Be kind to yourself and to others.

More of this rebellion, please. The corporate dollar isn’t threatened by giving “unsellable” food and expired products to folks in need. There’s always some “business reason” to throw things away, but that’s entirely apathetic. This is the way. Raise your fist and fight that shit. Leave the goods out. E someone who helps.

My first #Twitter handle wasn't my name, but was associated with a personal website of mine.

When being "MarkMcElroy" online became important to me, that handle had long been taken.

So I contacted that Mark McElroy and asked, one Mark McElroy to another, if I could have that Twitter handle.

This total stranger said, "Oh, yeah, sure!" and passed the handle on to me.

I'm still grateful for that #generosity and #kindness, which made leaving that identity and platform behind all the harder.