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Wake and District
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
#PipeBandProblems
You may not have caused this problem yourself, but it is your job to do something about it, especially when you hold any kind of a leader...
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Wake and District
- Feb 14, 2019
- 1 min
We LOVE this band.
St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories w...
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Wake and District
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
Stand out.
Too much time and energy in life gets spent trying to fit in…trying to be seen as “normal”. I personally think that normal is pretty bor...
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Wake and District
- Feb 4, 2019
- 1 min
Reflections.
On Monday, February 4, 2019 -- the sound of the bagpipes filled the air at the Raleigh Police Memorial in honor of a Raleigh Police Offi...
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Wake and District
- Jan 30, 2019
- 5 min
Learn.
A bagpipe band is not a finished product. Every well built band started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the na...
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Wake and District
- Jan 28, 2019
- 7 min
You're Right.
It is impossible to understate the importance of leadership in any human endeavor. Proverbs says: “Where there is no vision, the people p...
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Wake and District
- Jan 27, 2019
- 5 min
-Attitude+
When I was a teenager I was the primary target of an extremely persistent bully at my high school. One day I came home in tears and wrot...
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Wake and District
- Jan 23, 2019
- 3 min
Differences.
Our members come from all walks of life and bring an indeterminate amount of experience with them. We are Seabees, police officers, firef...
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Wake and District
- Jan 15, 2019
- 1 min
Attitudes.
Most bands like to measure themselves by their strongest, most talented people. However, the strength of the band is always impacted by t...
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Wake and District
- Jan 12, 2019
- 5 min
Difficult Instruments.
Victor Hugo said -- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." Music gives a soul to the ...
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Wake and District
- Dec 31, 2018
- 4 min
What we are about.
We often make the assumption, what is interesting to us is therefore interesting to others. If you have read one of these year end entrie...
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Wake and District
- Dec 23, 2018
- 1 min
The space we share.
Theodore Roosevelt said – “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” May we add — “with those around you“. Wake and Distric...
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Wake and District
- Dec 10, 2018
- 2 min
Perception.
I'm always looking out for a unique presentation of musical performance and analysis. Last week I made a brief post talking about ear tr...
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