UPDATE MARCH 2008

 

 

COMING SOON! 

"GENEROSITY WORKPLACE WELLNESS SEMINARS":    We are currently developing 1 .5 hour /half day / full day seminars to enhance workplace generosity. Our concept embraces the generosity within the individual employment environment and in the greater community, locally and globally.

INTERNATIONAL JOY!

MULTICULTURAL GENEROSITY: We recently visited Southeast Asia (Thailand and Cambodia) to research a documentary on the Generosity of Nations. This research will lead us into to a series of films and slide shows demonstrating joy through generosity around the world. Our plan is to provide schools, colleges and the general public with models of the simple joy of giving. We are looking for individual and corporate sponsors interested in helping finance the production(s). Visit our Advertising / Sponsors Category Page

INTERACTION WITH YOU:                                                                                                         

We invite articles and comments from site visitors to provide their accounts of the joy of giving & receiving & topics related to our purpose.  Additionally, we'd like to establish important links to those individuals and organizations with like-minded goals.

I’m trying to remember the first present I ever received.  I was four or five years old.  I think it was Christmas and Santa brought me a set of Roy Rogers’s twin six guns and holsters.  Very Cool!  Roy Rogers, the singing cowboy, was my first hero.  There was Gabby Hayes, his scruffy sidekick; Trigger, the smartest horse in the world and Dale Evans, Roy’s singing wife.  Happy Trails to You too! I would stand in front of the mirror and squint to look like Roy.  Nobody seemed to think toy guns for kids were a no-no in those days.  Then my cousin showed up for dinner with a really cool red cowboy hat!  Now if I just had that hat too……..

 

We were a pretty average middle class family when I was growing up, nonetheless, presents were special.  As I recall, I used to get one serious present at Christmas and another on my birthday (only a few days after Christmas, so it was like a double big bang time of year for me).

OK!  So how you doin?  Are you like me, with more than half a century behind you?  Let’s see; that’s more than 18,000 sunrises and sunsets.  I was scanning a web site the other day (lookin' at what Costa Rica has to offer) and apparently there are at least 77 million of us Boomers coming on stream (and I think that’s just in North America).

 

Most of us appear to be healthy and financially stable.  Many of us are apparently just fine with the way we are and content to live out our lives as comfortably as possible.  "Why not, we’ve paid our dues", we say.  (Oh, before I forget, check out www.50plus.com for a wide range of good information for Boomers …. those of us over 50 of course!).

 

Apparently we are also adaptable, mobile and experienced.  And some of us believe we are what is being referred to as the “transition generation”….human beings led by an intuitive knowing, co-creating a paradigm shift in consciousness and signaling an unparalleled surge of spiritual growth. 

Like many Canadians, I recently celebrated Thanksgiving Day with family. I find it interesting that we officially designate one day a year to expressing “thanks”. However, I’ve also noticed that there is an “awareness movement” occurring where people are tuning into “an attitude of gratitude”.

In North American society, it’s easy to get caught up in the seduction of consumerism and the constant focus of not having enough, or always wanting more “stuff”. How many times have you thought, “if I just get that new car, or buy a bigger TV, I’ll be happy”?  This can be a “soulless” pursuit, as we never reach a sense of fulfillment….there’s always one more new toy calling us.

According to Judith Timson, a columnist for The Globe and Mail newspaper, “recent research shows that the more genuinely grateful we are for the things we actually have in our lives (as opposed to what we don’t have that we secretly think we’re entitled to), the happier we are and the better our lives feel” (page F7, The Globe and Mail, October 6, 2007).