Take stock

Imperfect Pledges series - 9. July 2026

Instrumentation: Solo Saxophone

Duration: 3’00

Imperfect Pledge: After a busy month and a delay in writing a July pledge, it’s a good time to take stock rather than impose another new idea/

This short piece is about reflection - revisiting previous promises to yourself or ideas you were keen to implement and have become routine. This idea could apply to this Imperfect Pledges series, (with this first year’s theme about saving water), or in a wider context with other moments of self-reflection.

The aim is to remove any feelings of failure or guilt at things not done or kept up regularly, but instead look ahead with positivity and renewed energy to revisit ideas and boost their implementation again, whatever that may mean for you personally.

About the Imperfect Pledges series:

A 12 part monthly series (October 2025 - September 2026), making pledges to myself for that month to add or change a habit, to have a positive impact both on my lifestyle and on the wider environment in some way

I may not be completely perfect in executing the pledges, but building good habits is the aim, and so they are imperfect pledges

100% of profits will be donated to eco causes relevant to each individual pledge in the series

“We don’t need a handful of people doing it perfectly, we need millions of people doing it imperfectly” - Anne Marie Bonneau, on zero waste