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Friday, December 3, 2021

Generosity
When abundancy is redirected through one's self-effacement 
to the Gens, the Clan, the tribe, the family

GENEROSITAS, Idem quod infra Familia, genus.
Generōsus, well-born, well-bred, noble; superior, excellent; (figuratively) generous, magnanimous; (figuratively) dignified, honourable.
Latin gēns (“gens; people, tribe”), from Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth; production” 生), from *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce” 生; 產生) + *-tis (“suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verb roots”). Doublet of kind, genesis and जाति • (jātí). Cf. gender, generate, gentile, genus; also Latin gigno (“I bring forth”)
Gĕnĕrōsĭtas , ātis, f. generosus,
nobility, excellence, goodness (post-Aug.): in ipsa ove satis generositatis ostenditur brevitate crurum, ventris vestitu, i. e. noble breed or race, Plin. 8, 48, 75, § 198: “caprarum,”
Gentil, from Old French gentil, borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”).
helpful, kind
pleasant, amiable, nice
attractive, pretty; also derogative, in the sense of superficial, esp. in the arts
(idiomatic) all very well (c'est bien gentil tout ça, mais "that's all very well, but")
well behaved, good (especially but not only about children, in the sense of good boy/girl)
fairly large, nice, tidy

Friday, December 3, 2021
"Self-effacement is the better part of valour, for the attaining — not of what is desired for yourself but of what is necessary for being a channel of blessings to others." 

ECRL 2468-1
The entire human experience  recorded as such in memories banks  is the spiritual entity's specific little helper, facilitating scrutinizing, refining, improving the local adaptations and the necessary adjustments.
The Banjo Lesson, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1893)

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