"Grateful" is a word in ENGLISH
Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying;
delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate;
grateful sleep.
Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed
toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge
and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.
I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.
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A businessman tells his friend that his company is looking for a new accountant.His friend asks, "Didn't your company hire a new accountant a few weeks ago?"The businessman replies, "That's the accountant we're looking for."
matinagubalúson - Grateful, thankful, mindful of benefits received, ready or willing to make a fitting return. (cf. bálus, kabaláslan, matagubalúson).
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