Just imagine receiving as a birthday present a work about all the stages of a Woman’s life conceived by Opera Singer Jessye Norman , from texts by Nobel Prize writer Toni Morisson, poet Maya Angelou, author and psychonanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes and music composed by Judith Weir.

Well Henry Kravis did an extravagant and historical gift to his wife Marie-Josee Kravis!

Woman.life.song

When huge talent come together and create work, life just gets even more beautiful…

I wish I could her Jessye Norman performe it one of these days…

Extract of Toni Morrison’s chapter
EDGE [Toni Morrison]He was a boy – just a boy -
and I was a very young girl.
In blazing light and shadows trimmed in gold
we took the risk of love
the grist of love
the dreamy, steamy mist of love.
For he was a boy – just a boy -
and I was a very young girl
racing to the edge of love
the bed of love
the love-me- til-I’m-dead of love.
He was a boy – just a boy -
and I was a very young girl.

We were new to time
and dreams were real.
We could play out the line
[Get] to the edge of life
the bed of life
the love-me-til-I’m-dead of life.
For he was a boy – just a boy -
and I was a very young girl.