Each piece is written for a person or an occasion or both. Most are the product of night time noodling on a Blüthner grand in the semi-dark.

Each title uses a key word from the Lenten hymn Forty Days and Forty Nights. It explores the isolation and temptation of forty days and nights, left alone in the desert. Think dark room in a monastery, late night, candles, left with your own inner voices.