Will You Be My Guest?

What kind of a host are you?  Do you encourage refrigerator friends – people who are comfortable enough to walk into your kitchen and help themselves?  Do you plan parties that bring together lots people who don’t know each other or do you have smaller more intimate affairs?  What does your place look like at the end of the evening?  I have one friend who just loads up the kitchen counter with all of the dirty dishes and another who by the time guests leave everything has already been washed and put away.  There is no right or wrong, simply a different way of hosting. 

Each Monday I invite you to my place for a very brief conversation.  Most of the time you read what I’ve written, have a private reaction, and move on to your day.  Occasionally people comment publicly, but more often it’s an email to me directly.  Again, there is no right or wrong.  That’s simply the reality for bloggers.  But, I’m sure there are weeks where you’ve said to yourself, ‘good idea she started with but I would have written it this way’ or ‘she really missed the point there.’ 

So how about you do ‘write it that way’ or write about something that’s been floating around in your brain? 

Yes, will you be my guest blogger?  You are welcome anytime.  Khalil Gibran said, “If not for guests all houses would be graves.”  Well, I think the same can become true of blogs. 

If you accept this invitation, it would be up to you whether you identify yourself or simply appear as a ‘guest.’   If you want help with your idea, I’ll help, or am happy to host what you write on your own.  It’s your call.  Should anyone comment or email, I would share those with you.

Why might you want to do this?  Because it’s fun.  Because you’ve been waiting for someone to write about a particular idea and decide you’d like to put on paper yourself.  Because you’ve always thought you could.  Because you’d like to try your hand at it.  Because you are skilled at being a guest.

A Turkish proverb says, “Guests bring good luck with them.”

Please bring me some good luck.

Anytime.

Marilyn