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Bastion (n., BASS-tchun)
Part of a fort that sticks out, guarding against attack from a variety of directions, or someone or something who upholds or defends something from attack.
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In praise of scruffy hospitality - Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves writes a terrific article about how not to let perfectionism in house cleaning limit welcoming others:
Before kids, entertaining for me meant a whirlwind deep cleaning of the entire house. Not being a zealous housekeeper, I used to joke that I had to entertain or my home would never get a thorough cleaning. When I first had kids, I ended up entertaining a lot less, partly because of the mess in the house that I no longer had time to deal with.
Then one day, a woman I very much admired said something so simple. She said whenever someone was coming to her home — a home with five children in it — and she started to worry about how her home looked, she would stop and think: "Are they coming to see me, or are they coming to see my home?" It occurred to her that someone who would have a problem with her home looking like a family of seven lived in it wasn't really someone's opinion she cared about.
Shreeves illustrates an important distinction between hospitality and entertaining. It's a distinction worth considering, so go read the article.
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