Through the writing of this collection I became fixated upon the concept of an ensemble, how it was all the parts of a thing taken together for consideration in relation only to the whole. This expanded my subject matter and areas of life that I wanted to explore. I loved the concept that even the tiniest pieces of memory and life had a significant impact on who we are as a whole, who we have become and who we aspire to be. It is a selection of poetry that gets away from the "headlines" of an individual and instead begins to peel back the layers that create the whole, the tones of our parts that create the orchestra of our souls.