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KEEP SPREADING LOVE
How the Simplest of Ideas Can Become the Profoundest of Gifts
Keeping it super simple can create greater space for kindness
My seventeen-year-old daughter puts down the mug I bought for her for her sixth birthday. The words on the front still as clear as they were then.
“I Love You”
It came from a charity shop. It was at a time when I simply hadn’t the money to buy fancy or expensive gifts. But that never mattered.
Gifting, for me, never was about the monetary value but about giving something that is meaningful. Which is why buying something for which the money will help another adds such a thick layer of love that it smothers any gift with the potential that comes with that.
Gifting for me is so much more than an item to possess.
For Christmas, one of the best gifts I received was a sushi-making set along with all the ingredients required to make sushi.
Sushi is delicious, it has to be said.
But, more than the enjoyment of eating it is the enjoyment of making it.
And, the fact is that I would never have gotten around to making any sushi alone.
