Some people clock out at the end of the day and leave work behind. Jose Jimenez clocks out and picks up a guitar.
Jose works in the underwriting department at One Park Financial. But outside of the office, he and his wife Christa are Towers of Babel, a country folk band built from scratch, on their own terms, with their own hands. Every album recorded, every show organized, every detail handled the DIY way. Not because they had to, but because that is who they are.
Music is not a side project for Jose and Christa. It is the thread that brought them together. A shared love of writing, playing, performing, and putting something real out into the world.
But doing it all independently has its limits. Equipment costs money. New instruments cost money. The pedals, the gear, the tools that expand a sound and open up new possibilities, all of it adds up. And with Christa now back in school, time is tighter than ever. The dream was to not only keep playing venues but to start busking, to take the music to the streets and share it with anyone willing to stop and listen. That is where the Dreamweaver program came in.
"It might come in the shape of some money, but it's not about the money. It's what we're doing with it. We're turning it into love."
The capital became instruments. The instruments became songs. And the songs, as Jose would tell you, are made with love, from love, about love, in every form it takes.
On behalf of Towers of Babel, Jose and Christa want John and Ben to know that this gift was never really about the money. It was about what the money made possible: more music, more connection, more of the thing that brought two people together and continues to hold them there.
Thank you, One Park Financial. The world sounds a little better because of it.
