Thanks and thinking are indeed closely related, she writes, for when one is given a gift, one is compelled to think about the one who took the trouble to give it. Thinking, for Visser - and, as she notes, for philosopher Martin Heidegger - is inevitably a response, a recognition, a remembering. In this way, thoughtfulness, mindfulness and thanks are woven into a whole. And the notion of thoughtlessness acquires an added sting.

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