Dear Noah! or about being each others life jackets

On Sunday I went to a concert where four choirs, an orchestra, one soprano and one baritone performed Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony. This piece of music is incredible in itself and became even more meaningful, since a charity project was created to collect money for the Save the Children organization and their work on rescuing children from dangerous journeys in the Mediterranean. The theme was "May all of us everywhere be life jackets, on the inside, saving what is left of us. Because you don´t have to be in water to drown" and the orange life vests became a part of the performance and made the message painfully clear. It is a strange and wonderful land where the beauty of the art meets the seriousness of a project's essence. When our hearts are wide open for the music, we are also able to embrace the dark reality. 

I left the concert with this theme on my mind, that we all have to be life jackets for each other. And while my week has passed by, I have been more aware of the boats around me. Actual boats and psychological. For psychological boats are sometimes also overfull and unstable and the need for emotional life jackets through chaotic waters and stormy waves is therefore crucial. A life jacket that makes it possible to stay safe until the shore is reached, where one can dry up and slowly start building a new one.

Because if the unicorns miss the ark, there will soon not be any unicorns left...