Signpost Inn

Awkwardness, it's okay.

Human beings in a room with other human beings are awkward for a while. You’d think we’d have figured out, as a species, how to speed past the painful bit and slide into acquaintance and friendship gracefully.

Liv Booth

August 3, 2021

Hospitality: incarnate grace

Fourteen is a tough age. I remember the feeling. I didn’t quite deserve a spot at the adults’ table, but I wanted to be respected and included.

Liv Booth

July 6, 2021

Share what you have, not what you wish you had

I’ve been a guest at some super fancy houses. Exhausted one summer, I visited a friend who lives by the sea. Smiling, she hugged me, settled me into a wicker chaise lounge on her wrap-around porch, put a chilled white wine in my hand, and treated me like royalty. I was accepted and cared for in these luxurious surroundings.

Liv Booth

June 22, 2021

One Space

Many of my fondest memories as a welcomed guest take place in one room, or even in one part of one room. Any semi-cleared spot can be a space for acceptance: a place to be heard. I don’t have to go crazy getting my entire house “company-ready” for my visiting friends to be loved.

Liv Booth

June 1, 2021