I spent most of June in Dublin. My first academic job was in Ireland—almost 30 years ago in the Sociology faculty at University College Dublin. I stayed only two years. But my family has since then visited Dublin at least a couple of times each year. It is a second home of sorts. It feels wonderfully familiar.
      This is where I first read the essays that appear in this issue of the Virtues & Vocations magazine on generosity. They helped me understand something that has long eluded me.