His hands are poised above ivory-white keys. The room seems to hold its breath as the pianist waits, ready, waiting.

“True freedom isn’t the ability to do whatever you want, but the ability to do what you ought.” - Pope John Paul II

Right off, I have to say thank you to Paul, whose piece "Quiet Society" has been inspiring me ever since it was written, until my thoughts have materialized into this reflection . . . It might seem a contradiction to his observations, at first, but I think I’ve really found a fascinating, paradoxical connection, underneath it all.