Pine-sol was smudging. Fabuloso was throwing holy water, followed by a baptismal dunking. I say that with reverence for Rosita ( imagine Flo from the Alice Tv show, but 5’1 and the sarcasm was Spanish/English) who had the fire of the Saints in her. “Not today Satan” was her life.
I grew up traveling as a kid. I remember pine-sol on hardwood church floors from the cleaning ladies in Georgia and in South Florida the near insanity of the Spanish grandmotherly type women who cleaned the churches with Fabuloso.
I hate photos and picture culture on one hand, on another, images and moments that should have been art. Smells and images can change lives and move souls.
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