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Heart

To be a Heart person or to be a Head person ... that is the conundrum.
Move over Willy-boy. Here is the difference: The Head represents
the center of reason, It is the Crown of Creation. The Heart, on the
other hand, is the center of being ... it is both the spiritual and
the physical. It is represented on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. And
the winner is ... at least for today ... The Heart.

Ah ... what an organ ... within which resides all feelings and
emotions. We don't say I love you with all my head, do we? Did you
know that in some circles of reasoning one measures the life span of
all living creatures by the amount of beats produced by the living
heart. I have heard said that by that reasoning ... all creatures live
about the same amount of time ... in heart beats that is. Let's see
.... sixty or so beats a minute ... sixty minutes in an hour ... 24
hours in a day ... methinks I'm getting a headache. And let me tell
you ... getting a headache is a real heartache.

So how important a role does the old ticker play in the everyday lives
of men? Well ... the Aztec priests ripped the hearts out of hapless
victims. When Cupid roams he pierces your heart with an arrow. Cruelty
is defined as heartlessness. Begging is to ask one to "have a heart."
Hearts of slain enemies were eaten to gain courage. And last but not
least ... African bushmen would not let their children eat the hearts
of Jackals ... fearing it would make those children cowardly. Of
course ... in my mind this conjures up zillions of children scurrying
about the African plains ... trying to catch a jackal in order that
they might rip out his heart and eat it. Mmm. Yummy. I guess they
don't have popcorn over there. Or we don't have jackal-hearts
delicacies over here.

Once upon a time there was a man who wanted to give his wife his heart
wrapped as a gift for Valentine's Day. Lest you all begin to shudder
uncontrollably as this point ... envisioning our hero slitting open
his chest with a sharp blade and delicately removing his precious
pulsating organ and then winding a ribbon around it and presenting it
to his wife ... as most men are wont to do ... I am here to say
lax-up.

Once upon a time there was a jeweler named Verdura ... and Verdura
made two --only two--rare yellow sapphire and diamond wrapped-heart
brooches ... and our man bought one and gave it to his wife. And it
is a stunner

For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
direct you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you will
scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says
Tidbits Graphics ... and then click on the link that says: Heart ...
in order to view an organ without equal.

And there ya have it.
That's it for this week folks.
Catch you all next week.
Benjamin Mark

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