Stingy.

The other morning I received a text from a nonprofit director friend; she was commenting on one of the recent podcasts Stories Foundation had just released. Her comment was encouraging to me and in it she relayed something I had said that challenged her. Reading the words I had apparently spoken typed back to me, surprised me.  She quoted me as using the word “stingy”. I thought, oh no, that isn’t a kind word, did I really say that in the podcast? I went and asked my co-worker if I had used the word stingy, and she confirmed it. To me, stingy isn’t a particularly kind word and I truly do desire to be kind even when talking about hard things. Nevertheless, apparently it was the right word for the right moment,  it came out, was recorded and helped someone else. Since then, I have found myself thinking about the word often and how stinginess sneakily plays out in our day to day lives. So now it is not only immortalized in a podcast, I am writing a whole post about it.