laurel segrist

In Pursuit of Failure Reclaiming your practice of hospitality by honoring failure as a discipline.

learning hospitality

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In 2025, my toxic trait is sending the husband Substack quotes like memes.

A Different Sort of Culture War The Strange American Fight

Delightfully authentic culture is often louder than we expect; people singing together in church or in the streets, well practiced in their own voices because they use them so often.

sundays: a sacred scarcity colorful doors on ancient moors: a ghost tale of missed opportunity

Dotted like crude buttons on a somber wool sweater, little stone cottages sat in rows upon an ancient English moor.

There Are Strangers In The Park "Just two blocks," she promised. Voices in her head echoing that she was being too dangerous, inviting strangers inside while alone at home with the small one.

told in folktale form, this is a short story centered on an experience that shifted my perspective on hospitality.

You're Invited to the Sacred Potluck Society a can of beans & and some Midwestern socialism.

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Dinner Parties & Democracy hosting a resistance with thrifted table cloths

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Chocolat Chaud

Dear Christians,

If you’re still supporting Trump, you are actively distracting folks from the Gospel.

Make a choice on what matters more: Trump’s promises or His.

Your light is dim.

lentilles du Puy & poireau

build courage for bad times.

but do build it. one brick at a time.

call your rep & leave a voicemail. write a letter. use your talents as your voice. open your home to strangers for fun. learn your local ballot. know your neighbors.

brick by brick.

Dachau in 2019. Set up in 1933, seven years before Auschwitz.

They used propaganda to imprison social democrats, clergy, journalists, & librarians. Anyone who had a clear head & heart.

The camp is IN the town. There was no need to hide what the people were promised. The hate campaign worked.