the gift – Living on the Lip of Insanity

Back to “The Gift” and “fair use”

So, I am not the only one thinking about on-line offerings as gifts. In this week’s New York Times Sunday Magazine there is a feature about Lewis Hyde, MacArthur genius grant recipient, poet, and essayist. He asks the question: What is art for if not to share? In a gift economy, gifts only increase in…

Thank you notes

My mother and grandmother always had us write those thank yous before the excitement was off the receipt of the gift. The gift came with an obligation, even if it was that pair of slippers from my Great Aunt Alice (who had no idea what Mom had spent the money that she sent on.) As…