The Kindness of Sharing Ideas

"Be content with you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself."
~ Alexander McCall Smith

I suppose writers write mostly because they have to -- as in they really want to.  I imagine some might write for the money, but I believe that for most writers, there is a certain generosity -- a kindness -- in sharing ideas.  That occurred to me this morning as I read this in the first paragraph of a book: 

"It was a Saturday, the day that she preferred above all others, a day on which one might do as much or as little as one liked..."

I immediately loved that idea!  I had never thought about Saturdays quite that way, but it made perfect sense to me and I decided that I would like thinking about Saturdays that way from now on.  The joy of a new idea made me grateful that the author had shared his thinking.

P.S.  The Saturday quote is from Alexander McCall Smith's In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, part of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.