"When I receive a gift I am acutely conscious of both the gift and the giver,
and gratitude spreads through me. This gratitude coalesces into a wish to give
something back. I long to please my giver, endow that generous benefactor with
something that will offer comfort, nourishment, and delight equal to what Ive
received. When my benefactor is a place rather than a person, however, my role
as recipient is less direct. Im someone who has inadvertently stepped beneath a
stream of beneficence not specifically intended for me but suddenly pouring all
over me. If I wished to offer thanks, how would I do so? Does a place have
consciousness, such that it can receive gratitude for what it has given just by
being itself?"
Trebbe Johnson shares more on giving thanks to wounded places.
