Hospitality in DC?
We're here. Been here since January 8. Four miles directly north of the White House. In a house called the International Guest House. We're learning the nature of hospitality (and it isn't what is taught in a college course). We're visiting the institutions and museums that tell the history of this country. We're navigating public transit and walking lots of blocks nearby to get a feel for the neighborhoods. We're eating and working together with the host couple, Jonathan and Betty Schrag, and the other five-month term volunteer couple, Frank and Jane Yoder. We're practicing how to live in community and then attempting to extend that community to the guests who make this home for a few days or more. Hospitality is more than clean sheets, hot muffins at breakfast, evening tea. Those are the nuts and bolts of what we have begun to learn how to do. However, this house sits in the heart of a culture that appears to have lost its way as being a place that accep