We just enjoyed an unusually neat experience. Delores and I went for a walk (that's not the unusual part) through our new neighborhood. A few blocks from home we met the family of our mailman. In only a few minutes we were friends. What was unusual about the whole experience was how welcome and friendly everything seemed to be from the very first moment. They brought chairs out for Delores and the other lady-folk, and we chatted idly for some time.
I think I experienced a little of the kind of hospitality I want to always share with others. Walking away, I felt like I was walking away from the house of old friends. We even have a tentative dinner date coming up. Walking home hand-in-hand with Delores, chatting and laughing together in blithe merriment, I thought to myself how wonderful it is to be in a community I can call home.
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