Holding Up Half the Sky

There are times when you look back and say "this was a good year."  A year that you look back on and smile. This piece is not about one of those years. It was a period in my life when everything and everyone required attention. No matter which direction I turned there was another discussion - another decision. In hindsight it was a period of tremendous learning and growing. It was time for life changing decisions, resetting and trying to regain the momentum again.  But at the time it didn't feel that way...

I was sitting in the dining room thinking through everything that had to be done. All you can do is the best you can and hope it works out.  At some point I was deep in thought and sipping my wine - a relatively new phenonamon at this point in my life - when I put both arms in the air and held them there.  Kerry looked and asked me what I was doing.  I told her I was "holding up half the sky" because the other half already crashed down on us.  We both laughed and continued to drink our wine - and just when we began to relax the phone rang and we both put our arms in the air...

Score: Flute / Piano / Viola