Hi guys, first I just wanted to say that today was a bit of a shame because for whatever reason the battery didn´t last much. Don´t ask me why as I am no technician but I´ll check it out tomorrow again and maybe it´s just a matter of recharging it and hopefully it´ll work as new.

Regarding playing and connecting with random strangers. I would say they stop being strangers when meeting through music, a song or just one look while performing a song can change that status. Today I took the risk of focusing on the look of one young man who I realised was singing along the lyrics of a song I often play busking. The song is the extremely known Ojalá from Silvio Rodríguez. If you haven´t listened to it yet and you enjoy singer songwriter music please do yourself a favor and listen to it right now. It´s probably one of those “stream of conciousness” songs that came about, maybe not in the way as I wish you were here from Pink Floyd came about as Roger Waters once put but in this case as SIlvio said in one video showing early recordings of the song “it just came at once and it was pretty much done”. How lyrics and music work together on that song pretty much trascends the creator to this day. It´s intergenerational as I know it for instance by heart now and that young man who was singing along knows it too, and let me say, knows it well. 

Funny thing is it really touched him in a way and he had to stop and sit down to finish watching the whole performance and record it with his phone. I didn´t mind and I felt it was an important moment for him, as for me, I realised I was playing an important role in that moment and the performance became quite meaningful. 

The young man called Gonzalo, was curious about my music, gave me some money and added my solo project to his social media. All kindly and gently. I wish all the encounters were like that.

I ain´t complaining but I feel sometimes awkward when people just take a video or a picture in your face without even saying thank you or may I? In general I can feel if they do it out kindness and also self interest in a healthy way or out of self interest in a way that I feel no more than a object and kindness kind of slips away somewhere else. I guess it´s something I can´t control but as the Monthy Python many times said “Always look on the bright side”.

Thanks for reading so far and if you are keeping up with reading all the stories I post, congratulations. I know I am not an easy nut to chew but “nuts” I am hahaha enough Jorge!

P.S In the picture it´s Eric Idle from the mighty Monty Phyton singing and playing guitar (Image credit: MItch Dalton /L.Cohen/WireImage) 

Please watch everything by them ;)