Margaritaville and the Leap of Faith
Key West, Florida
In reading lately about the health travails of Jimmy Buffet, a stray memory of a day in the Florida Keys caused me to again appreciate how ennui can be overcome by what the Christian existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard [1813-1855], identified as “the leap of faith”, and how transformative that leap may become.
I first visited Key West in 1987. I was attend…