When listening to music, do you ever feel like a surfer poised on the crest of the wave? I do. Other times it's like I'm bouncing along as gently as when I rode my one and only mosh pit.

Sound can enrapture, energize, soothe, disturb and heal. I wonder how the vibrations of sound felt to my mother's parents, both of whom were deaf. My grandmother was a gifted hymn singer in sign. Don’t tell me she didn't "hear" the music. Sound comes through the soles of our feet and the pores of our skin. If newborn babies like Jim Larkin's little Ella could speak, what would they say of the symphony of their mother's heartbeat!