RESA is light music composed during a time characterised by my wife's cancer. I ask myself how I could compose such light music during our last autumn together? I do not know. Maybe the music is a portrait of my wife? Ragna made a bright impression on people. She was funny, creative, knowledgeable and mentally strong. We travelled together. In the last year we travelled to cancer clinics abroad. We lived in a mixture of uncertainty and determination, but also a desire to explore and experience nature. One late summer day we hiked through a beech forest and along a lake in southern Germany and had lunch in the sun. On an autumn day in Latvia, we walked across the long sandy beach of Jurmala at dusk. It was chilly and windy, but a lovely dinner awaited us at the small hotel. We did everything we could, as long as we could. Memories of traveling with Ragna are bright.