Eric Matheson, a Canadian physiotherapist, was inspired by a patient who, having learned how to self-correct, gave him this note:
"I will dance
To the music
Of the
Laughing Sea"
The Laughing Sea
Dancing to the music
Of a laughing sea
A restless instinct for freedom is roused
As creative abandon inspires
Renewed trust in its cause
Through receptive hands
This vexed petition
Long kept at bay
Finds safe passage
Its voyage has at last begun
I will dance
Dance to the music
Of the laughing Sea
Eric Matheson, PT
January 2005
I was inspired to write this when a patient, a real clown, gave me this after discovering her own unique physical expression. She wrote: