Status Updates From The Art of Gathering: How W...

“Let me declare my bias outright: Chill is a miserable attitude when it comes to hosting gatherings. The chill approach to hosting is all too often about hosts attempting to wriggle out of burden of hosting. “Chill” is you caring about YOU masquerading, as opposed to you caring about them”

-connect your guests
-have a purpose
-create structure
-be generous (with good, drinks, compliments etc)

Um wow. This is so insightful on gathering. the chapter about exclusion is so interesting & how it’s vital to “gathering well”. This is a concept I’ve never heard & have always advocated for inclusion

“There is never an easy way to say “Please don’t come”… in trying not to offend, you fail to protect the gathering itself and the people in it. We fail to draw boundaries about who belongs and why”