Life is a Beat

Beat: 1. A stroke or blow, especially one that produces a sound or serves as a signal.2. A pulsation or throb.3. Physics A variation in amplitude that results from the superpositioning of two or more waves of different frequencies. When sound waves are combined, the variation is heard as a pulsation in the sound. 4. Music a. A steady succession of units of rhythm. b. A gesture used by a conductor to indicate such a unit. 5. A pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse.6. A variable unit of time measuring a pause taken by an actor, as for dramatic effect.7.a. The area regularly covered by a reporter, a police officer, or a sentry: television's culture beat. b. The reporting of a news item obtained ahead of one's competitors. 

I woke up this morning thinking of a poem I wrote 2 years ago titled: Life is a Beat.

I do everything to a beat.

I write to a beat.  

I photograph to the beat.  

If I didn't pay attention to the rhythm of the action and the timing of the shutter I would not be able to capture.

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I have to control my breathing.

sometimes hold my breath.

ultimately altering my heartbeat beat*

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synchronizing with everything around me

being completely in the moment

participating in the ebb and flow of life.

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sometimes i get burned

but I'm alive damit

never more alive than in the act of creation

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breathe in
hold

click
exhale
laugh

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"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive." Richard Carlson 

"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures." Rabindranath Tagore 

"Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it." Virginia Woolf 

"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm." Michael Jackson 

 "Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune." Deepak Chopra 

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