The Optimism of Generosity

Sometimes I think, how is it even appropriate to talk about optimism? Every day there's another shooting, tragedy, political or legal debacle. And yet I feel like we can't give up. Or at least I can't. Maybe you feel the same way. Studying generosity, like studying any wholesome quality of mind, is the opposite of giving up. It's a study in being optimistic. For one thing, it's a study of character-building and that's an optimistic activity: imagine if we could re-form our o...