03/02/2026
✨ Recently I have been thinking about approaching different aspects of my life as ✨ Meditations in Generosity ✨.
✨ To be clear, I am not much of a proper meditation person, so maybe I’m using the phrase to sound cool to myself, but it’s a way of changing a loathed activity from one of tension into openness.
✨ Take this photo for instance… Do I want to play rummikub with my Alzheimer’s mom for the 148th day in a row? Absolutely not.
✨ But when I sit down with her with the purpose of trying on generosity, I have the chance to watch myself become the version of myself that I most aspire to be. (I am an only child and generosity is not native to my character, so this is my evolutionary edge).
✨ This is the same when I do things for my partner or children that I am not excited to do. (Picture drying snow gear for the 5th day in a row).
✨ This isn’t me virtue signaling, or gratitude spackling, or toxic positivity. This is me coming to terms with the fact that within the realm of my own life decisions, I have the choice to be resentful about caring for my mom as I am raising my own kids, or to see this as a further flexing of the muscle of generosity.
✨ And these Meditations in Generosity have become their own gift over time…
✨ Where are your meditations?