Today is my musical Sunday. Peter Schilling - Major Tom

If my fondness is for the countryside, that's how my musical Sunday begins—with the greatest of all. Yes, of course, I am aware he's not the only best one, but he is, my friend whom I also had the pleasure of meeting—my friend, because that's how I consider him—the great Simón Díaz.

I woke up thinking about the kind of music you hear in the Venezuelan plains, and the reason is that since last Friday my wife went to spend two days at my mother-in-law’s house in Guárico. She had to go take care of some personal things, and since Guárico is one of the plains states of my country Venezuela, and since I’m happy because she’s coming back—she should be arriving in Barcelona around eleven in the morning—that makes me think of that music; I woke up happy, singing this song.

If my fondness is for the countryside, although I’m not from the Venezuelan plains because I was born in Ciudad Bolívar, since I met my wife, with her, I began to love the plains of Venezuela so much more. For me it’s a magical land; besides, it’s one of the states in Venezuela that produces cattle and grains, that state is practically part of the food production of my country.

And what better way to highlight the place where my wife was born than with the music of Simón Díaz and this song with its lyrics that give life to that singing? It also marks the difference between the plainsman who stays in his land producing and the one who leaves but always has the desire to return—to go back to his land—where it’s like a prayer asking for that person who left to come back, and if they don’t know what the way is, in the lyrics they ask for their path home to be illuminated.

For my wife, going back to her home, even if only for a few days, I know it makes her happy, and I know this because she gets excited; and on the phone calls, her voice sounds lively—on one hand very, very happy to be at her parents’ house, spending time with her siblings and her mother, but on the other hand, always watching out for our daughters, like any mother who loves them.

She’s already back, and today I’m sharing with you a great musical piece that represents returning to that countryside, to those plains, to that land of joy and happiness. I hope you enjoy my selection, and if you let it play, you can hear other songs by Simón Díaz.

Thank you for being there with me in my Sunday musical. Happy Sunday musical to you all.

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I hope you can enjoy this song as much as I enjoyed it.