Category: Drum Circle Blog

God’s Message to Treehuggers and Peacemakers: Blessed Are the Peacemakers:           for they shall be called the children of God. (Matthew 5:9) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst         after righteousness, for they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6) Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. (Mark 12:34)           Whatsoever ye have…

          I first noticed them at the next bench over from the drummers’ bench, a separate group of homeless youth who often congregated there.  They wore different clothes than the rest of the people.  Their clothes were darker and somewhat dusty, but serviceable for survival.  Next to the bench was a large carpenter’s cart loaded…

GOD’S EYES I first noticed them at the next bench over from the drummers’ bench, a separate group of homeless youth who often congregated there.  They wore different clothes than the rest of the people.  Their clothes were darker and somewhat dusty, but serviceable for survival.  Next to the bench was a large carpenter’s cart…

A Lifetime of Kindness He sets up a camp on the lawn with many of the comforts of home, within inches of the drum circle.  Early in the day he spreads out blankets on which he arranges an array of musical instruments like shakers and drumsticks and cowbells.  He brings out bags of free pastries…

The drum circle is a good place to consider the problems of the world because a lot of the same things happen there that disturb nations.  Even here there appear dominant types who want to control everything, lead the drums, decide who stays or who goes.  The power they’re addicted to is to control those…

The drummers suffer for their political art.  Their passionate activism through drumming sends them to doctors for their hands, arms, necks and backs.  The taping of their hands and fingers with yards of adhesive tape is not for decoration or just to look cool.  It’s not even just to protect from injury.  It’s to try…

There are chalk drawings on the pavement where the drum circle is, big ones in rainbow-colored chalks.  There is a peace sign about five feet wide, a heart, and various words written in big letters like “LOVE” and “PEACE.”  As the drums play, people dance around the drawings and on top of them, as if…

Some people wear costumes to Hippy Hill, emphasizing the fact that here you can be who you are, or who you think you are.  Top hats with stars on them are seen. There was a girl in an incandescent green outfit with rhinestones, that made her look like a mermaid.  There was a man dressed…

The circle of about twenty drums is on the pavement right in the middle of the main thoroughfare through Sharon Meadow.  That means that people usually go around, so much that there’s a big bare area in the grass encircling the lower half of the drum circle.  The other side is bordered by the long…

These are not the war drums of conquering armies.  These drums make a happy sound, the sound of swords being beat into plowshares, of chains being broken.  It’s a sound the world has hoped for.  There’s no one doctrine or dogma in this celebration.  It is unstructured, free-flowing, unleashed. On the week-ends the drumming starts…