Good heartedness can turn just about anything into a gift, and bad heartedness can reduce any gift to a possession.

We expand a circle – from me to me and you, to us and others – and a gift is formed and developed and renewed.  Ego to eco.

(The gift circle is grown multi-dimensionally when we include the world and our higher hopes and values.)

When we seek to possess the gift, we reduce the circle.  Eco to ego.  The light of the gift goes out.

But we renew the gift when:

We allow curiosity to constantly renew us
We are observant, seeing what others do not
We hold lightly to pass on, rather than grasp to possess
We are reflective and thoughtful
We seek to add to (innovate), creating something beautiful to pass on.