Take a moment, and look at your surroundings. Most of us - many of us - are blessed with a rich mixture of friends, family, some measure of financial security, and health.

Those may vary widely; I'm nowhere near financially rich (trust me - the projects I was counting on for December fell apart - and I committed the cardinal sin of all consultants, which was to assume that the 'about to happen' project was the same as a 'happening' project), but I'm blessed with family, and colleagues, and friends - many of whom I have made thanks to blogging. So when I get a day when I feel like I'm living the blues, it's not long before someone does something that reminds me of how lucky I really am.

I need more business, and I need to get serious about working out, and Littlest Guy once again repeated that he plans to get into Stanford, but those are "high class" problems. I will get more business, I can work out, and I'm blessed with three amazing sons, who I'm happy to do what's necessary for.

Blogger Gary Farber, of Amygdala isn't.

And he's hitting a crisis point as his disability claim has been denied, meaning he can't get assistance with his healthcare or his finances. He's written a scaldingly honest post about it, and he's asking us for help - yes, I know he's needed it before.

But I just tossed another $25 in the pot, and encourage others to do the same thing. We'll watch a streaming Netflix movie this weekend instead of going out.

Look, it's a complicated thing. There are a lot of voices calling out for support right now. But I'll suggest, strongly, that generosity (not grandiose generosity, but small, frequent acts) is something that I know is central to my values. If you have enjoyed his work over the years (and he's put the work into his blog), it might not even be generosity. You might just be paying him for the thinking he's made you do.
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