Receiving genuine care attention is a gift made precious by universal vulnerability

Evidence

Hers is the live attention of actual care, the readiness of those who work to minimize suffering and predict the needs of the flesh (and the spirit). Anyone who has ever received this kind of gift knows just how precious such attention can be—particularly when we are vulnerable. And when are we not vulnerable? — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 410

Categorization

• FICTION: The operative-room nurse whose attention monitors person, not readouts, is a ready lens for a story narrated from a bedside or trauma scene.
• XREF: connects to: Deep gratitude rests on the awareness that a gift cannot be repaid — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9360; Receiving selfless care is a universal core of human experience; Self-blessing sometimes requires an external catalysing gesture of attention — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 471 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Deep gratitude rests on the awareness that a gift cannot be repaid — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9360; Receiving selfless care is a universal core of human experience; Self-blessing sometimes requires an external catalysing gesture of attention — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 471 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern conditions have atrophied the faculty of genuine gift-giving #complicates (0.74) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 37