Today I went to the funeral of one of my favorite guests.
A gentle and very kind soul, an actual rocket scientist/physicist for NASA, a lover of traditional music, mountains and this place.
This morning when my alarm clock went off I said to myself "Just five more minutes..." as we had 4 room for breakfast. And then I heard his widow in the room above moving about getting ready for the day she and her son (in another room) bury her husband. They don't live around here, but he grew up here, so his roots are here.
No one has ever had a very special cup for their coffee at the inn, nor asked about our children by name and watched them grow up, except this guest.
I have some of his music (from a band he is in for fun) I play on the speaker in the dining room during breakfast, and whenever he was here I would make sure I pointed it out and embarrassed him with the other guests. It always made for great conversation.
Another reminder that if you are not enjoying your guests, and touching lives then you may miss out on this whole thing called innkeeping.
Maya Angelou said:
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
A gentle and very kind soul, an actual rocket scientist/physicist for NASA, a lover of traditional music, mountains and this place.
This morning when my alarm clock went off I said to myself "Just five more minutes..." as we had 4 room for breakfast. And then I heard his widow in the room above moving about getting ready for the day she and her son (in another room) bury her husband. They don't live around here, but he grew up here, so his roots are here.
No one has ever had a very special cup for their coffee at the inn, nor asked about our children by name and watched them grow up, except this guest.
I have some of his music (from a band he is in for fun) I play on the speaker in the dining room during breakfast, and whenever he was here I would make sure I pointed it out and embarrassed him with the other guests. It always made for great conversation.
Another reminder that if you are not enjoying your guests, and touching lives then you may miss out on this whole thing called innkeeping.
Maya Angelou said:
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”