Coming Back

 

 

The Clancy Family lost our Dearest Mother in June and I have now come back to New York City to continue the life here that I started in January. It has been very difficult picking myself back up and experiencing the same joy that I did before. 

 
As the plane left LaGuardia and circled over Manhattan heading to Florida it was unbearably difficult to say goodbye to the City for the reason I was going.

I knew what I was facing but had no idea what faced me. 
 

Since returning I have been incredibly thin skinned and have been wondering why it is I came back. Emily stayed behind until school at the end of August and so I was alone to face my grief.
 

Nothing was the same.
 
I even became aware of the 'dirt' of the city where as before I was so
in love that I didn't notice any of it. 

One of the things that made me so fall for New York City was the Sing for Hope Piano Project in which I was trying to play 88 pianos before they disappeared from the streets on June 16. That, sadly, was a quest I could not complete and it only added to my grief. I didn't even want to finish writing about the pianos I had played. In fact I haven't wanted to do much of anything since I returned over a week ago.

 

During the quest I played one of the pianos outside of the Chobani Soho café. Chobani sponsored the Sing for Hope Project. 

 

My picture was taken by Micheline, the project manager, and she sent it to me on email. We then started an email conversation back and forth, first with me telling her of my quest to play all 88, then that I was not able to complete my quest and the reason why. She was very kind and told me to get in touch with them when I return to New York which I did.

Micheline got in touch with me this past Monday by email.  Chobani and Sing for Hope have set it up for me to go next Monday to the warehouse in Times Square where all 88 pianos are stored. Each piano is getting cleaned up and prepared before they are given away to nursing homes schools and community centers.

 

I will be able to play ALL of them in one place!

 

Chobani also delivered by special courier a box filled with yogurts and treats and a lovely note saying that their sympathies were with us, the family, and they wanted to spread the joy of life and that is why they are giving me this incredibly generous gift of being able to play the 88 pianos all in one place in here in New York City!
                                                               What a way to come Back to Life!