Roy's Stethoscope: Listening to the Music of the Heart

What do you know about your heart?
One evening, while hunched over my desk, my son, Roy, took out an old instrument from one of the desk drawers and asked with amazement, “What is this?” “A stethoscope,” I answered.
I looked at my son and the old instrument that I had once used as a young doctor at the hospital, and then I explained, demonstrated, and tickled. Together, we practiced listening to the voices of the heart, hidden in the body. We played, laughed, told stories, and interpreted the...