Readings

For Gratitude

We did not make most of what we depend on.

Proposed form Not a report of established or tested use.

Theme
gratitude
Occasion
At a meal, a handover, or the close of a day

For what worked without being noticed.

For the person who left the next person a clear beginning.

For words we did not invent and work we did not see.

We did not make most of what we depend on.

Let us name one source we actually know.

Let thanks be a gift, not a debt collected.

Pause before the fifth line for a name, spoken or held privately. You may leave it blank. Do not invent a worker’s circumstances to make the reading affecting, and do not use it to ask someone to be grateful for mistreatment.