Risa reflects on gardens, seedlings, memory, illness, friendship, and the fragile courage of beginning again. Braiding together stories of Montréal community gardens, queer friendship, cancer, parenting, lost commons, and childhood wonder, she asks: how do we stay hopeful when failure is inevitable and the work of living never ends? Through music, memoir, and magic, this is a love letter to all our small bright attempts—to the vulnerable green selves in each of us that keep reaching for light anyway. A song for the wild-hearted, the weary, the grieving, and the still-growing. https://www.missingwitches.com/we-are-seedling-kin-infinite-and-inevitable/
The music in this episode was composed by Emily Doolittle and is included with her kind permission https://emilydoolittle.com/
Three Summer Wassails 1. Blackberry Wassail 2. Potato Wassail 3. Mushroom Wassail Three songs for SATB choir, composed by Emily Doolittle with poetry by Forrest Pierce. Commissioned with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Performed by Via Nova, conducted by Daniel Galbreath.