Kabir describes God as the breath inside the breath and Hildegaard of Bingen says “I am a feather on the breath of God”

Although this CD has been inspired by my fathers’ journey home to wherever this manifested world came from, and the journey we had to make to let him go,  ultimately this CD is about our longing for the Beloved in all its manifestations. We may experience the Beloved in the dying face of a loved one, our baby’s smiles and gurgles, a friend’s hug, the sun glancing off water, the beauty of a lime tree’s scent, or in meeting emptiness as we breathe out or fullness as we breathe in. We may long to see, hold and touch the Beloved by creating it in our imaginations and learning to make it real by embodying it in our hearts.

This CD is an offering to our brokenness and to our splendour, as we are “exquisitely woven” and our “souls have the signature of God”.

Wayfarer in 3 movements: Inspired by a poem by Hafiz, a 14th century Sufi mystic and poet, whose
words resonated with my feelings of how precious my dad was in life.
Dedicated to Tess Harris the cellist (and childhood neighbour and friend in Uganda).

Exquisitely Woven: Words and music by Marguerite.
A beautiful image of how we are woven from light, breath and vibration was growing by the
time I read Hafiz’s poem Wayfarer. Sitting beside my father, I was amazed at how he shone
with grace and an inner light even as his body and mind were unravelling.
The violin represents the soul.

Singing and Dreaming: Words and music by Marguerite.
I wrote this piece on retreat in Iona shortly after my father’s death. The inspiration came from
a musical drama about a Finnish legend; A mother singing her dead son back into life.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Music by Marguerite. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald
My mother recited these 12th century Sufi quatrains about awakening throughout my life.

Beloved: Words and music by Marguerite.
Simply imagining the Beloved as a lover.

Presents: Poem by Norman MacCaig. Music by Marguerite.
A contemplation of emptiness and plenitude and the tides of the breath; life and death.

Sacred Bread: Music by Marguerite.
This choral piece took some of Khalil Gibran’s words on love as its inspiration.
“Speak to me of Love”