PERRI, author of a must read, RIVER TANGO

Watch for this book!!! This will be published around the end of October. If you like to kayak or if you don't like to kayak......if you like the tango or if you don't like the tango, Perri has captured a dramatic river run that captures the essence of both kayak and tango and ties them together in a fictional version of his 2 loves.
Remember, it's RIVER TANGO by Perri Iezonni.

Packing

Our idea, now that we own the "santuario" in BA, was to travel with 2 backpacks- loaded with tango shoes, AND to avoid the luggage ordeal at EZE. How nice to dream of hopping off the plane and zipping through without the baggage stop. Last week I started adding a FEW things to the pile on the spare bed. A few things? This looks like a mountain: Maybe a printer? 6 jars of peanut butter, a FEW extra clothes and on and on. Mike saw it today for the first time and quickly closed, more like slammed, the door and shook his head. Well, I said, we'll sort through it all and leave most behind. The pile on the bed is bigger than the apartment and the pile on the bed is just starting to grow. It will take the 9 weeks to unpack it all.

The HEAT is ON

Sunday after Sunday the dancers arrive at our tent. Last night- 20 and by 7:30 Mike and I cranked up the gas heater by the house. A run down of the evening. Matt and Sue were the last to arrive after a party. Sue danced with Rudy and worked on her walking. Rudy? All the way from the Hudson Valley to teach a short lesson to our group and I think to dance with 2 women who never arrived. Jeri and Dick, Mike A. TANGO.
Jim and Jennifer, who travels back to her acting career in NYC today. Jennifer showed Cathie and me some pole dance moves form her classes, but no pole is coming to the tent.
Walter has the walk. Mimi and Terry moved in close embrace-Argentines? Terry wonders why I won't throw in a swing or salsa. Joe and Mary Ethel are back with the famous pie. David ate, but needs a partner. Dan- his usual solo on the floor.
Lenore and John who loved the vegan cheese though he was eating the wrong one.
Summer is coming to a close. Me? More tired this year than last. Mike ? More tired this year than last, but we keep it going for the love of the dance.

Lyrics- READ, LISTEN, WEEP

I am studying lyrics from the songs that break my heart.
This week:
Uno
If I had the heart...
The heart I gave away...
If I could, like yesterday
to love without a premonition
It's possible that your eyes
that cry out to me their love,
I'd close them with my kisses...
Without thinking that like these,
they were other wicked eyes
that ruined my existence...

Nada
Nothing, nothing is left in the house where
you were born
Only spider webs that the weeds weave
The rosebush does not exist either
and for sure it has died when you left...

Nido Gaucho
I have my little ranch on the hillock,
where the thrush sing...
Daisies,
and rose bushes
have sprout
for you...
Because one day this gaucho nest will be
yours and mine

La Morocha
" I am the Argentine brunette,
the one who does not feel regrets,
and spends life happy
with her singing
I am the gentle partner
of the noble porteno gaucho,
the one who saves her affection
for her owner."

Absorbed with MAGNANI

Magnani is an artist. He painted murals in the Mansion Dandi Royal in San Telmo and he carved entire walls in the lower studio. His imagination grabbed my heart in 2006, but we would only come home with some paintings and why did I ever think, "Mike, Let's invite him to our apartment and see if we can afford a mural. But we did and he did. 8 days of laughter, tango and watching the progress. 10 tango figures with the "prostituta" in orange looking longingly for the tango. Each face shows a diferent emotion. The day we left- May 1st, when the shutters closed the light out of our apartment- I felt like I had left my family behind. We named them as he painted. Cecilia, Silvina and on and on.
The apartment is now a home to us. All the touches and lots of light with the wonderful city views from the 10th floor make it our special "santuarium."
Magnani introduced us, without English to Podesta, Lydia Borda and his friend Ernesto who promised to dance with me in the fall.

Friendship - More complex than I Understood

Studying at the Schemel Forum at the U of Scranton this February gets mixed in with our tango.
The quote, by C.S Lewis in our ridiculously-expensive-course-book again makes me think of the dance.
Describing the difference between eros and philias:
"Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other.; ARGENTINE TANGO
Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest." AMERICAN TANGO
Now which one would you choose?

FARLEY's on Heart Day

"Tango Romantica" at Farley's with more than 36 on the floor enjoying the lesson by Donna C and Cathie J. The boleo led to the leg wrap which we had learned before, but found easier and lovelier this time. Mike looks like a sultry Gavito and the evening just felt so Argentine.
Donna C. dragged 6 friends from her ballroom class and a couple wandered in from Tampa. They found our site on the internet and called here last week to confirm the time. They love the Dandi in San Telmo where they stayed on their first trip to BA. Who wouldn't love the Dandi? I find it hard to believe a tango craze is taking hold in Scranton. Matt bought red roses for the women and Mike gave Hershey kisses in pink and red to each table. We are so in love with tango I don't know what to say. Thank you all for the support and for just showing up.