Cadence while walking.

As I was walking into town to the post office the other day, I fell into my habit of counting cadence to my steps.  Too many years in the army I guess, but as Kathy will tell you, when we go for a walk I using end up counting cadence, singing out Jodie calls. 

   

You know, left, left, left right, left.  Or maybe 1…2…3…4…1.2.3.4, get in step.   There are so my Army calls that I have stuck in my head. 

At any rate, as I was walking today, a cadence came into my head that has been a source of thrill and excitement to me ever since I was a kid.  I have always told anyone who would listen that there are three things in life that I find very exciting.  You know, the things that make your hair stand up.  The first is attending an auto race.  When a race car flies by, the noise and the roar will vibrate your body down to the core of your stomach.  The next is a prize fight.  I don’t know why, but watching a boxing match and hearing the roar of the crowd when someone lands a good punch is, for good or for bad, very exciting.  The third is horse racing.  Nothing can make your hair stand on edge than to be on the rail when a pack of horses come flying down the back stretch.  Dirt or mud flying through the air.  The sound of the horses, the breathing and the clopping of their hooves.   It is thrilling, at least it is to me.

So, back to the point of all of this.  I think there is a fourth.   As I was walking today, I fell into my cadence routine and I began singing in my head a cadence I have heard many, many times.  That old exciting thrill came back as fresh as ever.  It is something that has always been thrilling to me.  So I came home and searched on ytube.   It is the Texas A & M band playing the Aggie War Hymn,    Seeing those hardheads, standing in the end zone, awaiting their time to march out on the field.  I can say that there is not much else that is so thrilling as to watch the Texas Aggie Band as it begins the Aggie Fight Song.   What do you think?