A quotation from Franklin, Ben
Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1736 ed.)
#quote #quotes #quotation #fish #hospitality #overstay #stink #visitors #welcome #fatigue #guest
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/70953/
It's difficult to return to a so-called normal life [after having visited occupied Palestine], it really impacts you. The #horrors that Palestinians endure on a daily basis combined with or in conjunction with the #hospitality and #love and #friendship and #kindness you're met [with] from Palestinians who are living under some of the worst #oppression in the world and have been for decades.
--- Eva K Bartlett, in an interview with RBN
source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/29/politicians-immigration-wrong-cheap-labour
The misleading assertion that #poverty causes #migration conceals the fact that #labour demand has been the main driver of growing immigration to western countries since the 1990s. More widespread #education, women’s #emancipation and #population ageing have led to labour shortages; these have fuelled a growing demand for #migrant workers in sectors such as #agriculture, #construction, #cleaning, #hospitality, #transport and food processing, as supplies of local #workers willing and able to do such jobs have increasingly run dry. Without such chronic labour shortages, most migrants wouldn’t have come.
Just saw this on #Mastodon, posted by @ghostreader@mastodon.top. It rings true but I don't know for sure.
#music #Hospitality #Going-Out #Hospitality-Going-Out #Hospitality-Going-Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5GxBtjwyU
All things are best when done without excess: it is as wrong to hurry off a guest who does not wish to leave as to detain a man who longs for home. Kind care for those who stay — and warm farewells for those who go.
[ἶσόν τοι κακόν ἐσθ᾽, ὅς τ᾽ οὐκ ἐθέλοντα νέεσθαι
ξεῖνον ἐποτρύνει καὶ ὃς ἐσσύμενον κατερύκει.
χρὴ ξεῖνον παρεόντα φιλεῖν, ἐθέλοντα δὲ πέμπειν.]
Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 15, l. 72ff [Menelaus to Telemachus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Mandelbaum (1990)]
#quotation #quote #arrival #departure #detain #farewell #guest #hospitality #kick-out #leave-taking #visitor
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/homer/1942/
