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Hosts, guests, and strangers: thoughts on hospitality
The season of hospitality is upon us, with all its pleasures and burdens. Known in the Christian tradition as Advent, it focuses on the need for preparation, both for the very intimate event of a baby’s birth and for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Dai Due, deer, hospitality, land ownership, Madroño Ranch, private property, Texas Hill Country
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Massachusetts, part I: of books and houses and hospitality
On our very brief trip to Massachusetts last weekend, Martin and I drove straight from Boston’s Logan Airport to Concord in hopes of glimpsing one of the hotbeds of American utopian thinking before the winter sun set. Driving through snowy … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Bronson Alcott, Concord MA, Henry David Thoreau, hospitality, Louisa May Alcott, Massachusetts, Ralph Waldo Emerson, tohu-bohu, Transcendentalism, Walden
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