Hugs & Farewells.

This time tomorrow I'm in Guayaquil, and in 26h on a flight to Germany. If everything goes well, bureaucracy has its weird way here... I had to change the permit to leave the country again, as the flight number had changed due to a new schedule. And then, Friday, Lily slipped in school and got a big cut next to her eye from the fall. 3 stitches. I guess I'm burning Karma right now so the rest of the journey will be easy going.

Just stumbled upon a song from The Cat Empire that I didn't know yet. The original is pretty cool, but the Live version at the Sydney Opera House has a special charm to it.

I had made a post about me being away, because my administrator will be down for the month of December, too - foot surgery. He'll still be managing and doing all the administrative stuff, and the rest of the crew has improved a lot in the last 6 months, so I hope they'll be fine without us - but just in case, I warned everyone that mistakes might happen, and asked for comprehension and cooperation with that.

Mi friend Brenda is going to represent #ecuador at the Viña del Mar Festival 2026! In the category Folklore, which fits perfectly. It's such an awesome thing that she's able to do that! The video for this song was made in Cotacachi, where I live.

When I ran around town today, many people said goodbye to me. I got many hugs and well wishes - even from my gardener. And from the bicycle transport guy, Freddy. It's not usual for men to hug here, but I always ignored that and hugged my friends anyway - and apparently that is common knowledge, as both Jesús and Freddy gave me big hugs.

It's awesome to feel the community like that.

Yesterday we had a new guy coming to the Jamsession. He wants to help organizing the sessions while I'm away, which is pretty cool. He brought a lot of new songs, a mix of older and modern ones, and we had a blast playing. One of them was this gem - though the music videos is one of the worst I've seen. Reminds me of Windows Media Player back in the days...

So far! I hope you'll all have a wonderful weekend!

Post written for the #saturdayselections by Galenkp inviting us to share music in the Weekend Experiences community on Saturdays.

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