The article on public generosity is thought-provoking. It has been the case for generations that philanthropy often comes with fanfare: from the robber barons of the late 19th C funding museums with their names on them to the billionaires of today finding ways to promote themselves with acts of public generosity.
There seems to be room for everyone: those whose giving is public and clearly in the service of their ego, and the billions of people who go about their lives with quiet acts of kindness and love. For all my high-minded preference for the latter, I am quite happy to live in a world where the likes of Guggenheims and Rockefellers have created spaces of beauty that I can enjoy, a beauty that fills my soul.
Life is complicated; let’s celebrate beauty and kindness wherever it appears.
How is it that the President of the US can make money from everything, even Bibles!! Sacrilege!
He’s a jerk!
The article on public generosity is thought-provoking. It has been the case for generations that philanthropy often comes with fanfare: from the robber barons of the late 19th C funding museums with their names on them to the billionaires of today finding ways to promote themselves with acts of public generosity.
There seems to be room for everyone: those whose giving is public and clearly in the service of their ego, and the billions of people who go about their lives with quiet acts of kindness and love. For all my high-minded preference for the latter, I am quite happy to live in a world where the likes of Guggenheims and Rockefellers have created spaces of beauty that I can enjoy, a beauty that fills my soul.
Life is complicated; let’s celebrate beauty and kindness wherever it appears.