A different way of thinking about what generosity does when it runs in the wrong direction.
You have probably given more than you should. You worry about people who do not worry about you. You stay up too late thinking about someone else’s problem. You do not need a book to make you more generous. You need a different way of thinking about what generosity does when it runs in the wrong direction.
What most of us call generosity is charity: one-way, depleting, and designed so the giver burns out and the receiver stays in place. The flaw is structural, not personal. This book is about the other kind. The kind that has been running continuously in forests, oceans, kitchens, and lending circles for longer than any human institution has existed. Circular generosity. The jar that fills because everyone puts something in.
Drawing on cooperative economics from villages in Kenya, neighborhoods in Baltimore, islands in the Pacific, and rotating savings circles across West Africa, this book maps the ecology of giving that compounds instead of depletes. It traces the pattern from cellular biology to the kitchen table of a grandmother named Vex, who runs an open table most evenings and has never once called what she does charity.
The jar belongs to everyone who touches it. This book shows you how to fill it, how to keep it circulating, and how to build something that outlasts you.
“Circular generosity. The jar that fills because everyone puts something in.”— from The Grand Matriarchy Generosity
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