A friend came in from New York yesterday afternoon and since she has never met Tin, I was not inclined to wake him for drumming in Fortier Park with Angie and Gingerbread. But he woke up wanting drumming so late we rushed to the park where he instantly joined in the circle.
Angie and Gingerbread teach drumming around the city and yesterday, Ginger brought her daughter Marissa to play the violin and Angie brought one of her former students. I was watching Angie drum and a neighbor trying to drum and it made me think of the movie we had recently seen, The Visitor, about a man struggling to connect to the world after his wife dies and who engages in a world not his own only to find himself drumming in the park, passionately.
Tin’s a natural – he just drums away and moves his hip in perfect rhythm. For the rest of us, we have to study hard to keep up – onesy twosey open, bass bass open.
Nice picture. I saw that movie and it was wonderful!