@Julia – Thank you. I really appreciate that.

@Christine – Right on! This is a perfect illustration of how powerful drumming can be. It doesn’t matter whether people have ever played a drum before or not. It just draws people together. And that’s a million kinds of awesome!

@Wulfie – Here’s to more bridges being built. With drums. With sound. With anything, really. The world clearly needs more bridges.

@Charlotte – Transcendent. That’s a great way to describe it. There’s some kind of special magic that happens when people drum together. Some seriously good schtuff.

@Chris – I hope we both live to see the day where political folks grab paints and drums and go to town. I’m positive that kind of thing would totally change the world. And I say bring it on!

@Josiane – Bridges built by booms. I’m all about that.

@Katie – What a cool experience with Toby. And I love that a guy grabbed a drum and came running to the drum circle. How awesome is that? When we were all sitting the church courtyard, playing a rhythm of welcoming, a guy walked in, sat down and grabbed a drum. It was the coolest thing.

Thanks for all of your comments. I appreciate you all x 1000.

Wow, that brought wonderful memories of drumming with Toby when he was in Marquette, Michigan this summer. We were at a home several miles out of town, a bit out in the middle of nowhere in the woods. There were probably ten of us drumming and at times initially things were a little discordant. About ½ of us had Djembes and many of the others had crafted their own drums – some incredibly beautiful. We had been drumming for probably 45 minutes to an hour when I heard a vehicle drive up. A man came, literally running, carrying a really large – maybe 3 foot diameter , handcrafted beautiful drum, which had legs. He ended up right next to me. Immediately one of the children who had been playing around the fire (yes, we had were sitting at a fire pit near a beautiful labyrinth) ran up to it and starting drumming with him.

I didn’t realize until we were all done and someone starting kidding the newcomer, who was a neighbor, that he had painting clothes on. He lived down the road a bit, was working on painting his house, heard us, stopped painting, grabbed his gorgeous drum and came over as fast as he could.

That was a beautiful night. I had been in Toby’s workshop all afternoon and my hands were super sore – I had broken a couple of veins in my fingers and parts of my palm were black and blue. Initially my thoughts were how to minimize pain and I even drummed one-handed for a bit. Then something happened, joy and oneness took over. I have NEVER drummed again like I drummed that night – so fast, so into things, under the stars, feeling one with everyone there. An amazing night to remember.

I’ve always felt that if we could just get all the politicians PAINTING that it would really change the way decisions were made at that level. But I think we can now add drumming to the required activities of anyone who ends up in any kind of position of power. It brings you back in touch with what is REALLY important!
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Great blog. You have a gift with words.

You are right, drumming could change the world.
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