"Your Father's Good Pleasure"

• Monday, 09 August 2010 12:08
• Written by Nick Block

Let’s say you get an email that tells you you’ve just won millions or you just inherited a bundle or you get an unsolicited phone call from an enthusiastic person who tells you that you’ve won a wonderful cruise for one and all you need to do is secure with your credit card the accommodations for the person who will travel with you. We are all leery, aren’t we? Well, maybe we all still share the nostalgia of a childhood Christmas or a birthday. When someone truly significant in our lives gives us something it is a really good day. But generally can we really imagine someone giving us something, something of inestimable worth, for no other reason than it makes them happy?