By that I mean meeting someone in person whom you’ve only known online before! Today I met Dr. Kathleen Jobe, an emergency room physician who is in my Cada Día Spanish class. One of the regular practices of the class is to say where you zooming in from and how’s the weather, so we all… Read More Absolutely fantastic!
I went to the first hour of Thursday night choir rehearsal before I returned home to catch the 11:30 pm flight to Seattle, with a three hour layover in San Francisco. Both of my flights were early, and Scott Fikse, former Director of Music and Liturgy at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, picked me up… Read More A day with Scott
It was again another gorgeous day in Seattle—the sky is blue and clear, no rain and it’s cool, in the lower 60s F. When I walked into St. Mark’s, the choir was rehearsing the Kyrie in a mass setting by Uģis Prauliņš (b. 1957), a Latvian composer who “is noted for his powerful and idiosyncratic… Read More Outside the bounds of time
It was an absolutely gorgeous day in Seattle—clear blue skies and no rain. I’m staying at the Bacon Mansion, an elegant bed-and-breakfast in a historic Edwardian-style Tudor home with 11 individually-appointed guest rooms. The 1909 home built by Cecil Bacon features a chandelier with 3,000 crystals, marble fireplaces and a treasured library. The continental breakfast… Read More Beautiful Seattle