The Wildflower’s Workings

Photo by Bill Metcalfe

Jennifer Moir, Allison Girvan, and Essi Wuorela, like the wildflower’s workings, so remarkably fostered Community Through Choral Art’s growth.

Jennifer Moir, this course’s creator, found seeds for CTCA twice now. She noticed the wildflower seed in Nelson BC, and decided to seek its bloom there. And so, she became one with this seed’s root;

The root, in its wisdom,

held the flower stable

in beautiful and safe germination conditions.

Root sought empowering minerals,

 for the bud to be grounded

 in the wildness of itself and surroundings.

Jennifer Moir nourished the plant with necessary nutrients of joy, spirituality, and autonomy, for each petal of this flower to ultimately radiate its innate tint and fragrance, causing the flower’s whole to be of a unique wildness.

Then, from ground up, this seed stemmed with vision and tenacity toward a singular lifeline;

The stem, with root’s findings, 

compassionately nurtured plant

spreading earth-blood across its body.

Stem held the supple wildflower

with all its fragility,

and inspired its inner diamondness.

Allison Girvan, the artistic director of “Fireworks” and “Ripple Effect”, with her stalk-like innovation and guidance, set us all up to blossom in full openness and oneness, with ourselves, each other, and Earth.

And in healthy sprout, this wilder-plant grew a powerhouse of a leaf…

The leaf shared its cultivated light with each petal. 

It inspired a sense of love and integrity

for the flower’s respiration,

humility in its workings,

 and generosity for its surrounding.

 

Leaf photosynthesized each breathing moment 

into exquisite soul-food.

Guest singer Essi Wuorela, in her humble and bright spirit, and incredible musicianship, shared with us invaluable lessons about music and community. Exploring “Dobbin’s Flowery Veil” with Essi, and being in her presence throughout this journey, enriched our musical experience. With her, our singing; the wildflower breath, emitted more glee-oxygen than we had imagined.

The three independent and cohesive life-forces for this musical endeavour fortified us, petal by petal, to pop in our colour and light, and breathe as one entity in the pulse of our wild-life.

Their heartening support for one another also inspired us to hold each other, upon this wildflower structure, and in the world.

We made a magical, potent, and unforgettable aroma, in the atmosphere where we thrived. Each of us, in the cycle of a wildflower’s lifeline, are now renewed seeds, and will blow off into the wind knowing that one day we might become a leaf, a stalk, or a root, of an elegant wildflower.

It is the wish that this flower’s nature and nurture will become a lasting example of how we can also foster wildflowers that so strongly perfume positively influential magic-music in our communities.

We are thankful for these three strong women, and all they have shared with us throughout this experience.