Drumming seems to ease barriers. Whatever the differences are, they seem to melt away. |
I didn't just want to sit in an office anymore. I saw myself as a therapist with a broom sweeping up the neighborhood. |
I remember we'd have classes with 6-month-old babies sleeping while their moms drummed. It felt like we were building community amongst the kids but also amongst the adults. |
My feeling was, they're going to love the drumming, but they're not going to want to talk. But they blew us away because they started talking. A few weeks into it, we had one session where there was no drumming and we talked the whole time. |
This is what we're all about. We're focused on getting the village to gather around the kids. |
With some programs, the kids get something while they're there but when they go home it disappears. I wanted follow-through with this. |