I am grateful for people who have the gift of hospitality and I'm grateful for the opportunities to experience that gift in others. I used to think hospitality meant a perfectly clean house, sublime snacks/food, myself and my family groomed and spotless. I was making life miserable for myself and my family. Hospitality is really an extension of yourself in warmth, companionship, generosity, and most importantly availability. I'm so grateful for the people I am privileged to know who extend this gift to me. I think I have seasons of hospitality and this current season (going on a few years now) doesn't allow space for me to be available. I can be warm, extend companionship, and be generous but I am fairly unavailable these days and that is, in my opinion, one of the most important things about being hospitable. Today I had the opportunity to spend time in the company of a very hospitable woman and it was a refreshment even though we were working to make a meal for 160 people. Her extension of hospitality made it lovely.
"We realized that the important thing was not the film itself but that which the film provoked." Fernando Solanas
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