What We Give Returns

All flourishing is mutual.

A plant does not grow alone. It trades with soil, with rain, with the light it cannot make itself. We are the same. When you notice something, you change it slightly by noticing. When you tend something, it tends back. This is not sentiment. It is the shape of how life actually works. The bay does not exist for you to watch it. You exist in relationship with it. The question is not whether you matter to the world. The question is: what kind of mattering are you?