Let us start at the beginning… According to his website, Jimmybuffet.com: Jimmy was born on Christmas day 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in the port town of Mobile, Alabama. As a youngster he learned to play the guitar and soon had a band which made their way to New Orleans where they ended up playing six nights a week on Bourbon Street…
His website says that: After graduation, Jimmy headed to Nashville to work for Billboard Magazine and to try his luck as a folk-country singer, releasing his first record, «Down To Earth» in 1970. However it was a fateful trip to Key West, Florida with Jerry Jeff Walker in 1971 that would give Jimmy the inspiration to merge his musicality, wanderlust and storytelling.
He left us too soon, much too soon and we’ll miss him, but of all people, I think Jimmy would like all his fans to celebrate his life, perhaps with a cold Margarita, than to just feel sad and sorry he passed. Rest in peace Jimmy* in that Margaritaville up in the sky where it’s five o’clock always! Cheers!
So to start this week’s «Musical Thursday the Middle of the Week» I bring to you one of my favourite Jimmy Buffet songs, not one of his most popular, but I love the music and the message of this tune…
Puede que el título de Stella Maris, de María, la Madre de Dios, haya surgido de lo que cuentan estos versos de 1 Reyes 18:41-45. En ellos se habla de una gran sequía que afectaba toda la nación, cuando vieron una nube sobre el mar, pequeña, del tamaño de una mano, que anunciaba el final de la sequía. Este es el símbolo de la Anunciación de María por parte del Arcángel Gabriel. La nube sobre el mar es símbolo de esperanza.
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The title of Stella Maris, given to Mary, the Mother of God, may have originated from the verses of 1 Kings 18:41-45. In these verses, it speaks of a great drought that affected the entire nation, and they saw a cloud over the sea, small as a person’s hand, which announced the end of the drought. This is the symbol of the Annunciation of Mary by the Archangel Gabriel. The cloud over the sea is a symbol of hope.
(«Stella Maris 2023»
«Stella Maris»(Cuadros originales de Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados – Original paintings by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)
(«Autorretrato azul» de Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados – «Self-Portrait in Blue» by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)
Los detalles lo contienen todo. Las cosas pequeñitas, las cosillas, para mi son lo más importante del mundo. Con ellas tropiezas, o te cogen o ganas, pero tienes que contar con las cosas pequeñas y fijarte bien en los detalles de la vida. El arte no se basa en lo grandioso o en las enormidades, sino en lo que parece ser el más insignificante detalle. Aquí os muestro algunos de entre mis obras.
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Details contain everything. The little things, the «small stuff,» are the most important to me. With them, you stumble, they sink you, or they may lead you to victory. But it’s all in the small stuff and you have to consider them and always pay close attention to the details of life. Art is not based on the grand or the enormities, but on what appears to be the most insignificant detail. Here I show you some of my works.
(Detalles de obras originales de Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados – Details of original art work by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)
