I want to drive a thoroughbred that's in tune with my heartbeat, but not something that's too dressed up for someone like me," Katayama said in a 2002 interview about the Z's comeback.
She said our hearts were beating in unison, although my heartbeat couldn't be discovered.
Soon enough, though, this narcotic phase was succeeded by excitation: spit balled in my mouth, my palms itched, my heartbeat accelerated – in my own small and unsophisticated way, staring at the algal scurf on the duck pond, I believed I could achieve something.
Vaguely I recall the dusty, rubbery air and the parquet flooring, but mainly I picture the teacher's towering height (I was short for my age which can't have helped) and I feel again the FEAR; my whole body, super-charged, shaking, the gallop of my heartbeat in my ears, my evaporating stomach, and the voice saying, "you're not good enough".
The cardiologist says I'm in atrial fibrillation, meaning my heartbeat is rapid and irregular.
I held my breath once more, but I could not control my heartbeat; in the tight space between the seat and the pedals I almost choked from its pounding.
"I have recorded my heartbeat in two different situations and used special software to visualize it in distinctive abstract forms, which are the basis of my prints… The recording for the first print took place in a quiet situation.
"When I met you in the summer / To my heartbeat sound / We fell in love / As the leaves turn brown".
"Resonance" is one of a collection of 50 stories in my book "Heartbeats, True Stories of Love" and is available on Amazon and Smashwords as an e book and paperback.
Who's calling!" "This is John Kascht; I'm the artist who wrote to you and, unfortunately, woke you up yesterday.... " My heartbeat whooshed in my ears.
