Recently I have heard about the power of music in our life for healing and motivation. In one of the picture quotes Gandhi says “To Know Music is to transfer it to life.” I am not sure what that means but is sounds important. Also recently I heard a PBS radio broadcast on the healing power of music from a former group of child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

Today my music was provided by my grandson and his middle school band at the Pulaski Day Parade in Pulaski, Wisconsin. After a ‘polka mass’ on the fairgrounds my wife and I made their way to the parade route to meet up with my son and his family.

The parade consisted of military displays and lots of tractors. But the middle and high school band did entertain us. My grandson plays the drum, one of the oldest instruments in human history. The drum beat runs deep in the heart of oldest civilizations of humans.

Last winter I saw a production of We are the Drum, a celebration of African American Journey through Music. It was an inspiring story of how the beat of the drums goes on.

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