After our conversation, I began to think about which pieces of music would best suit your service. And since I don’t yet know a great deal about your Sunday services, I had to go a little on instinct, buoyed by your request for ‘lively’ music.
So I decided to just ask the Universe what would work best for you, and the very moment I intended to ask, I was immediately drawn to The Butterfly Song, which comes from my ‘humanity healing’ album, entitled, ‘For All I Care’.
I don’t know whether you ever did ‘butterfly prints’ as a child; those paintings where you paint one half of a piece of paper and then fold it over, so that the paint prints onto the other side of the paper, which is then opened to reveal the image of a butterfly. I remember them fondly and much later came to see those butterfly images as a metaphor. One side is a mirror of the other. Which is like how the universe faces itself. The Yin and Yang. How people often see externally what is actually within them.
Appropriately, the album’s title also became a reflection, ‘For All I Care’. Said one way (For all I Care!), it sounds like a nonchalant statement of apathy, but on the other hand, it is an all-embracing statement of love – For all I care. I guess it depends on what is within you as to how you perceive it.
And so I created an album where I intended the music to evoke emotions. So that my listeners could face those emotions – face themselves – thereby allowing an opportunity to release old energy and embrace a more positive future. Or you could say, emerging from the cocoon, a butterfly!
The last track on the album – The Butterfly Song – pays tribute to that act of emerging from a moment in your life, a lesson maybe, an embarrassing moment, a moment where you judged someone, or complained. It pays tribute to consciously or unconsciously transforming those events into feelings of care; into love.
As human beings, a popular adage is, “nobody’s perfect,” and I’m sure that resonates with a great number of people. But we can honour our past, looking back with new, wiser eyes as we emerge in to a higher place of enlightenment, wherever that may be in this present moment.
There is one more insight the piece offers: As a spiritually aware person, I’m sure you can relate to a state I experienced where I thought I knew all I needed to know. It was a happy place, but I was sure there was no more room to grow. I was complacent. And then I experienced a series of events in my life (becoming a father, having to forgive big things, becoming aware of those complaints I was making, that type of thing) I suddenly realised I was still growing, still evolving and indeed that there was room in every situation I encountered to be more lovely. The pathway was still very much there to enjoy. you count the number of times in the piece where you think the butterfly has hatched from its cocoon?
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