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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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Brass band creativity, Italian version: The Bersaglieri (highly mobile infantry sharpshooters who originated in nineteenth-century Italy) “are well-known for their extraordinary performances in parades and military tattoos, always running instead of marching, with hundreds of black capercaillie [wood grouse] feathers flowing from their wide-brimmed black hats.”
Here is a Bersaglieri band with their distinctive feathered black hats; they break into an open run at 1:50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9NiEH9-vg&ab_channel=BkupAcct
From the comments: “The tuba player is probably thinking with each step, ‘should…have…picked…a…lighter…horn…….'”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fb533302494381750ce02d765e2d8eb67a061a3572cff5944eda4effba633ff8.jpg
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-MAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-ING!!!!! (Not to mention, re-MARK-a-bulll!)
Went to many a military tattoo (whilst a military academy mommy) and shrieked with laughter here. Just splendid stuff.