Today is Tuesday, September 15th.
Yesterday, Monday the 14th, at least here in my region, Veneto, schools began again.
There was a crispness in the air.
You should know that when I go to work, I pass by more than one school.
And seeing all those children, teenagers, parents, and teachers preparing once again to cross the gates and begin again after such a long time almost moved me to tears.
It is a new beginning.
Of course, there is fear.
There are unknowns.
There is anxiety about how things will continue — if they will continue.
But yesterday, there was only beauty.
For those of us who do this work, yesterday also potentially represented an important moment.
Because if schools are starting again, then little by little music therapy will also begin again within educational institutions.
A new phase is opening.
And whenever something new begins, something old — or at least something “less new” — has to move aside to make room.
That is exactly what is happening to me too.
Everything is starting again.
My time needs to be planned once more around the things that, fortunately, are slowly but inexorably beginning to move again, as they did before lockdown.
Projects.
Working contexts.
Training opportunities.
Concerts.
It is a wonderful springtime, leading me to spend less and less time at home, and more and more time in contact with people.
And so this thirty-seventh episode is the final episode of A Light-Hearted Journey Through Music Therapy.
We have spent nine months together.
Practically a gestation.
Now the time has come to go out and breathe the world.
The real one.
Have a good day, everyone.