“Our bodies produce a constant rhythm, which may explain why some small children and animals sleep better next to a ticking clock or metronome. Perhaps Shakespeare’s poetry is so timeless partly because its iambic pentameter mimics the steady beat of our own hearts: ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump.
Put your ear next to someone’s heart and listen to the pace of life. Listen to an animal’s heartbeat sometime, and hear the amazing rush of passion and blood within, so similar to our own heartbeats and yet so different. Watch the seasons, the heartbeat of the earth.
There is music all around us, within us.”
From Earth Bound: Meditations For All Seasons by Brian Nelson
King Edward Street Chapel 