Welcome To The New, Reconstituted Thunder Valley Drums Blog!

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It’s a heart’s adventure founded on a vow of service.

I’m in the process of moving the old blog, so there’s lots of housecleaning occurring in order to gear up for the June 25 launch of its new home here!

Meantime, please know that I am committed to service to life, all of life, the basis of a sacred vow I made many years ago that continues to stir my heart and to prompt this move. So you can expect a continuation of the same heart-felt articles, helping advice and the occasional eclectic fling that have become the hallmark of the Thunder Valley Drums Blog– only better (I hope!).

While I continue to pack up shamanic drums, old comic books and six years’ worth of other stuff accumulated on the old site, please feel free to poke around the new digs! And who knows, before long there may a LOT of surprises in store for you!

See you soon!

Aho & Namaste,
Bob

 

Going outside to get inside

Here’s another example of why I love to make drums. Drums are generally made of circles, and they always return the favor– they make circles…of friends! Like this: Meet Tony Dusek (above), an Illinois healer….

How a Delightful Customer Learned How to Care for Her Beloved Drum

You can find some pretty comprehensive suggestions about caring for your drum on the Thunder Valley Drums website, here. But I often receive questions from wonderful customers about this or that having to do with…

Bealtaine Fire Lightning & Ancient Social Distancing, Irish Style (video)

  Such hope for the world– from the heart of Ireland! Below is an email from a customer, Tracey, in Ireland, who purchased a drum (pictured above before I sent it) for her husband Barry…

Preserving Hopi Identity and Our Hope, One Word at a Time

(Photo associated with a 19th Century U.S. idea about “Manifest Destiny”; entitled “American Progress,” Autry National Center [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons This is a hopeful story about a small Native American tribe, the Hopi….

Time: Between The Tick And The Tock & And Mother Earth

Greetings, Dear Friend. It’s hard for me to believe, but somehow it’s 2019! So, Happy New Year! I am reminded once again how elusive is time, fleeting, mercurial, elusive. I often wonder if it is…

Lakota Language Being Saved By The Young

It calls to the heart when you see young people stepping up to save their treasured cultural heritage. Here’s a prime example, a video featured on the United Nations Human Rights page ( http://www.standup4humanrights.org/en/highlights.html). Background,…