by Michele Genthon | Sep 18, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
–You know you’re traveling when your body clock keeps saying it’s time to sleep, it’s time to eat, and the times don’t correspond at all with where you are. –You know you’re in a foreign country when you go to church and the priest’s reflection is...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 13, 2014 | MUSINGS, Reading
One hundred years ago a woman Martha Graham described as a “plump little lady with the dynamism of a rocket” founded the Cornish School in Seattle. Today it is a college of the arts, but in its beginnings all ages were nurtured there. Nellie Cornish believed that the...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 16, 2014 | MUSINGS, Reading
Elizabeth Warren’s A Fighting Chance is must reading for all American citizens but especially for mothers, for dog lovers, and for anyone who thinks they have gotten a raw deal from those who control this country’s economy. The book is like a rolling ocean wave. It...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 27, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
A Singing Culture One Sunday, we went to a neighborhood church in Spain, to find there were no instruments to accompany the hymns. This was a bit disappointing because the church had a beautiful organ (at least to the eye) that sat untouched. The voices of the...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 23, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
MY FAVORITE SPANISH WORDS Gaudi curved windows at Casa Battlò (where we paid Jubilados rate) No Molestar – for “Do not Disturb” Jubilados – (as in the Latin, jubilate, for “Rejoice”) used for Retired People (and thank you to Spain for providing discounts at tourist...
by Michele Genthon | Mar 27, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
The ritual of the Mass in the Catholic Church has a uniformity throughout the world. The prayers follow in a particular order, and if you are visiting a cathedral you can pop your head into a side chapel and know within a minute exactly where the priest is in the...
