Raise Her Up is a reflection on the call to parenthood. The piece traces the ecstasy as well as terror that resides within such a decision, in a moment where a young person who has just barely survived their own childhood and adolescence turns their eyes to the future for the first time. Through Raise Her Up, as the voice slowly starts to imagine a blissful future for their imaginary child without their own childhood’s pain, snow-globe-like images of families and children tumble through the texture, reflecting and refracting the central refrain. The first piece in the One Choice trilogy, it reveals a blind – and blinding – optimism and feverish hope, which is tested and tempered by the middle movement The Storyteller, and then brought to a gentle peace in Seahorse.