• be free and available to all people
• have value, bordering on the magnificent
• have the ability to transform people’s lives
• have to get rid of all the bad crap in life (like death and disease)
• have a sense of justice and protection
• give the receiver sense of value so they could know their value
• be cute
• have to meet the unarticulated needs of the human race that they try to assuage with all sorts of things like drugs or food
• have to bring hope and peace and goodwill to everyone, in fact it could change a life in such a way that  these things could be experienced on a daily basis
• have to make all the wrongs right
• have to know and understand all things (it could see and touch a heart)
• have to spread love from the receiver to those who have not been given this gift yet
• have the ability to give wisdom and insight
• have to create a sense of anticipation for it’s coming
• be multifaceted (continuously be rediscovered)
• be revealed in a secret, quiet moment with hints and clues that lead to it’s discovery

Well that’s quite a long list. Sorry if I lost you. I don’t think it’s complete yet though. Maybe you can add some other aspects to this list of the perfect gift. It got me thinking though about a gift that was given a long time ago (“For unto us a son is given…” and “…the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight…”). Could it be that the most perfect gift has been designed already?

I wonder too if design thinking is what makes me the giver I am. Designers at heart like to solve problems and we see this happening on a global scale now. Think about One Laptop per Child. The vision was to give children everywhere the opportunity to access learning through the internet. Design solved it by rethinking the entire process of manufacturing and distributing laptops in order to essentially give this ‘gift’ of learning to children everywhere.