laurel segrist
laurelsegrist.bsky.social
laurel segrist
@laurelsegrist.bsky.social
🏙️ Saint Louis
learning hospitality
In Pursuit of Failure
Reclaiming your practice of hospitality by honoring failure as a discipline.
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March 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In 2025, my toxic trait is sending the husband Substack quotes like memes.
a stack of pancakes with smoke coming out of them on a plate
ALT: a stack of pancakes with smoke coming out of them on a plate
media.tenor.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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.
A Different Sort of Culture War
The Strange American Fight
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February 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Dotted like crude buttons on a somber wool sweater, little stone cottages sat in rows upon an ancient English moor.
sundays: a sacred scarcity
colorful doors on ancient moors: a ghost tale of missed opportunity
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February 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
told in folktale form, this is a short story centered on an experience that shifted my perspective on hospitality.
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.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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You're Invited to the Sacred Potluck Society
a can of beans & and some Midwestern socialism.
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February 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Dinner Parties & Democracy
hosting a resistance with thrifted table cloths
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February 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Chocolat Chaud
February 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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.
February 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
lentilles du Puy & poireau
February 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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.
February 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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.
February 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM