This piece is an orchestral arrangement of my quartet by the same name. The original quartet version was commissioned by Alan Toda-Ambaras for Eureka Ensemble's string quartet residency program. Eureka Ensemble is an organization that prides itself on using music to initiate greater social change and bring attention to pressing issues in our world. In my time as an artistic fellow with them, I helped run their Women's Chorus program in partnership with the daytime shelter Women's Lunch Place and their Desear Soñar program in collaboration with the immigrant rights organization La Colaborativa. When Alan approached me about writing this piece, he asked me to create something that celebrated these two programs' significance in the local Boston community. The most striking image that came to mind in making a direct connection in a thematic sense was the guitars we used to teach music to the children in Desear Soñar. When not playing rhythm games or doing songwriting activities, we always had the kids learning basic strumming patterns and chord sequences in groups. The strumming motion of the guitars and fun music we learned in those classes is the heart and soul from which life breathes in this piece.