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Fading of the Drums

    There have been a few videos that have been on my mind for a while.  One of them at the below link is of a haka from a wedding.     https://youtu.be/lhhedH6wK6I   The other is a video of a drum line from a Dia de los Muertos parade found on Ed Calderon’s Instagram page.    https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-hutQBMln/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link   Not only is the video really cool, but when I read the post associated with it, something inside of me clicked.  It is the loss of past, of the disconnection to identity.  In the post he writes,  “… Our tribal songs where taken, our gods renamed, our weapons confiscated and some of us where even put in chains, be it of the mind or of the body.”    It moved me in an unexpected way and feelings of frustrations/curiosities/loneliness that seemed disconnected started to form into some emotional Pangea.  It was as if all of the root cause of my doubt,...