For the past few months I've really been enjoying "instantaneous generosity" as suggested by Joseph Goldstein (via Oliver Burkeman): "whenever a generous impulse arises…to give money, check in on a friend, send an email praising someone's work—act on the impulse right away."
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Related: a practice I stole from is to quickly write a personal thank you note to all new patrons. It deepens the very real gratitude I feel, and sometimes creates interesting correspondence. People seem surprised to receive these (& sometimes think they're automated!)
If your support predated this practice, then let me offer now: thank you very much, Brett, for your generous help!
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Saying thank you personally to someone giving you something (esp financial support) should be a system default setting. Here in the south, we have a bug in the system because we even say thank you to people taking stuff away from us. 😂
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