orchestral warm ups

Melinda is our doula and in our last session she likened waiting for labor to waiting for an orchestra to play.

When the orchestra is warming up, you get a taste of what all the instruments sound like, maybe even a phrase or two from the piece you'll be hearing later. But it's disorganized, disjointed, non-harmonic.

When the orchestra begins, she says, nobody wonders if they're still warming up. It's organized.