Processing, Processing...

Processing, processing... My status bar is moving as fast as when you stare at the screen, hoping that your staring will get the number to change and the bar to fill up.  The more you stare, the slower it inches across.  Downloading, uploading, updating, saving - in progress.  That's me: in progress.

Superior DONUTS at The Bathhouse!

After traveling all around the country and meeting so many wonderful people in amazing spaces, it's exciting to discover and share some of the gems in my own backyard right here in Seattle.

Strolling around Green Lake on a pristine afternoon, admiring ducks and reflections and the vivid fall colors against a blue, blue sky, still trying to figure out how to slow down without crashing, I ran into none other than writer, actor, and renaissance man, Cole Hornaday!  And Cole took me on a tour through a small, unassuming brick building I had passed many, many times - a little treasure that is the Bathhouse at Green Lake.  Won't you join us?

Seattle Finish Line - Press Release

Gabriela's US Book & Tango Tour

FINISH LINE Party October 9, 2012 from 7-9pm at Chocolati Greenwood in Seattle!
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Gabriela's Tour Route

Seattle author, Argentine tango teacher, and student of life Gabriela Condrea is tango dancing her way literally around the United States and Canada with boxes of books and a yellow hippopotamus.  By the time she reaches the "finish line" at Chocolati Cafe in Greenwood, Seattle on October 9th, she will have journeyed approximately 17,000 highway miles, visiting more than 60 cities in 36 states, sharing her exploration of connection through her writing and her teaching of tango - Tango is About the Connection - and at Open Mics and Poetry Slams along her route.  The video below explains her project and the events leading up to this US Book & Tango Tour. 

 

A full press release is included below.

   

The COUNTDOWN Begins!

With just under a month left, the COUNTDOWN begins!   

11. Nashville
10. Memphis
9. St. Louis
8. Kansas City
7. Lincoln, Nebraska
6. Denver/Boulder
5. Salt Lake City
4. Sun Valley, Idaho
3. Boise, Idaho
2. Spokane, Washington
1. Ellensburg, Washington     
 
SEATTLE! 
 
See you at the FINISH LINE Party on October 9, 2012!

* For details about each stop on Gabriela's US Book & Tango Tour, please see the schedule.

Feed the Hippo... please : )

Lauren Nuñez and the crew at the NeoTangoZone Milonga in Northampton, Massachusetts suggested that I make a sign saying "Feed the Hippo."  At the end of the evening, as I put the remaining books in my bag, I noticed a small collection of candy - chocolate kisses and mints kindly set aside for The Yellow Hippopotamus.  Ask and you shall receive.

Give and Take

Some of the best things are those we can't acquire or procure.   

They come only in the shape of gifts.

Try this with someone: Stand facing each other, palms open and touching.  See if you can walk around and stay together, maintaining contact hand to hand.  With palms open, you can't pull your partner toward you - you just have to meet her halfway and be open to accepting the gift of his presence.

Celebrating ONE Year with my Book!

At the Santa Monica International Tango Festival (SMITH), California. 
Photo by Vladimir Estrin: www.TangoAfficionado.com.  May 4, 2012.

Please help measure the reach of my book by adding any city, state, country you know it has made it to as a comment on this post or on my Facebook Page, When 1+1=1 by Gabriela Condrea.   
A ver, ¿hasta donde llegó ese libro mío en su primer año de vida?  Por favor, agrega una ciudad, una provincia, un país acá abajo.

One year after publishing my book, When 1+1=1: That "Impossible" Connection has been to at least 16 countries on 4 continents...