by markfeldmeir | Apr 19, 2012 | Hospitality
I was talking to a friend of mine who spends a lot of time on the road, travelling from city to city across the country as a consultant. He spends more than two-thirds of his life on the road. We were talking about the toll that travelling takes on a person – the...
by markfeldmeir | Mar 28, 2012 | Faith, Hospitality, Obedience
A few years ago I hiked the legendary Half Dome in Yosemite National Park for the first time. Adventurists have been making that 17-mile trek for more than one hundred and thirty-five years. The first person on record to make the ascent was George C. Anderson, who...
by markfeldmeir | Mar 14, 2012 | Hospitality
We live in a culture that has come to perceive the misfortune of others as must-see TV. From Judge Judy to Judge Wopner, from Ricki Lake to Jerry Springer, from high-speed car chases on the evening news to the sensationalized funerals of fallen pop icons, our culture...
by markfeldmeir | Mar 7, 2012 | Hospitality, Incarnation
I recently visited Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles and got to know a few of the homies who work there. Founded by Father Gregory Boyle in 1992, Homeboy Industries provides an empowering alternative to inner city violence for hundreds of former gang members – many of...
by markfeldmeir | Feb 29, 2012 | Hospitality, Humility
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson Nobody ever told me to hang my diplomas on my office wall. I did it because I thought it mattered. I have eight years of college and...
by markfeldmeir | Feb 26, 2012 | Hospitality
Nobody really knows who penned the phrase, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” These words originally appeared as the first line to a poem published in 1602 by, ironically, a composer so apparently absent from the world that nobody actually knew his name, let...
