Coming Home

Coming Home (with the Flowering Women)

All proceeds from the sale of this CD will go to benefit 50 Lanterns, a non-profit dedicated to bringing solar technology to some of the poorest people in the world. www.50Lanterns.org

The Flowering Women -- Lia Falls, Maria Genne', Debra Lach, Barbara McAfee and Teresa Riley-Baecker -- have been meeting together in circle for several years to tell stories, make beauty, laugh, cry, and heal. We are women who have lived many things: mothering, careers, artistic creation, marriage, divorce, health challenges, world travel, and more miracles than we can name.

Singing has become a deep joy for us, one we began sharing with other members of our community. Whenever people heard us sing, they'd ask when we were going to record. We started asking ourselves the same question.

We were inspired to make a recording that would be lovely to listen to and would also support other groups in singing together. We found a funder to front the recording costs, chose 50 Lanterns as our beneficiary, and started rehearsing. We recorded all of the songs in one 8-hour day!

The microphones were in a circle with a candle burning in the center.
Our eyes were bright, our hearts pounding with equal measures of nervousness and delight.

Can you hear the love among us?
Can you feel the many joys and sorrows that season our songs?
Care to sing along?

Steady as a Rock
A instantly learnable round with nature imagery.

Unbearable Love
A beautiful description of the human journey by Priscilla Coolidge.

Ise Oluwa
A traditional Yoruba chant from West Africa that means “Anything created in love can never be destroyed.”

Light and Darkness
A haunting round -- so simple to learn, so gorgeous.

Break ‘Em On Down
A lively round for our times by Harmony Grisman.

Sacred Words Chant
Words from the world’s sacred traditions woven into this healing chant by California songwriter, Sophia.

We Are One
A simple chant that expresses the truth of our connection.

Onawa’s Waltz
A round of authentic sweetness by John Krumm.

Promise
A haunting song from the voice of the sacred feminine -- by Barbara.

Breathing In, Breathing Out
Betsy Rose’s song of breath and freedom.

Maria’s Song
Maria Genne’s first composition created in the woods on a women’s retreat in northern Minnesota.

Navajo Chant
Californian Jody Healy made these unforgettable words into a round. They have been attributed to Navajo, Celtic, Tibetan Buddhist traditions, and to the poet Kabir.

Welcome Darkness
This easy round was composed by Lia and her sons, Mountain and Solomon, by the banks of the Mississippi River.