Lion-hearted Heart of gold Heart of stone Heart in hand Straight to the heart Heart-Hands-Head-Health (4H, if I remember correctly) ...and as an afterthought... Be still my beating heart!
"Heart of My Heart" how I love that melody. "I Lost My Heart in San Francisco" Hearts afire ! Heart felt sympathy. Pure of heart. Don't eat your heart out. Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. Sick at heart. "My heart is in the Highlands." Heavy heart. Nice having this heart to heart. (A nice red heart icon here {if we had one} to you all)
Rapunzel, your bio says you like talking to your ducks and chickens. What, no rabbit? With a handle like Rapunzel, I'd expect a lanky bunny, so people could say, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hare."
"Villains, I shrieked, dissemble no more....." E. A. Poe, The Telltale Heart Oh, that incessant beating, whenever will it cease? Cupids unfailing arrows will certainly inflame many on the morrow but mine is claimed and chained and safed as surely as if my love had rent my chest asunder and hid that pulsing mass neath the floor of her soul.
Well i can be hard-hearted, but my heart melts for a ballad--
there is one an old (14th century) french one (bel please help if you know the french) the Chant d'amour i think "the songs of love, they fill my heart with joy the songs of love will last my whole life long.."
the traditional tune was modified slightly, and used by the King, (Elvis) for "Fools rush in, where wise men fear to go"
I am reminded of the greeting gesture, which I have not seen in many years, wherein one touches one's head, mouth, and chest, implying, "all that I think, and all that I say, comes from the heart."
I am reminded of the greeting gesture, which I have not seen in many years, wherein one touches one's head, mouth, and chest, implying, "all that I think, and all that I say, comes from the heart."
i've never seen this greeting, but it sounds quite a bit like what we Catholics do prior to the reading of the Holy Gospels.... we use our right thumb to genuflect first at our forehead, then our mouth, then our heart. i'm sure there must be a name for this, but it escapes me. anyone??
From Geof : I am reminded of the greeting gesture, which I have not seen in many years, wherein one touches one's head, mouth, and chest, implying, "all that I think, and all that I say, comes from the heart."
Isn't that the traditional Muslim (Arabic?) greeting?
Re genuflection : we were taught (in the dear dead days beyond recall) that one went down on the right knee before God as personified in the host which was housed in the tabernacle of the altar ... and the down on the left knee for all secular persons like Kings, Cardinals et.al. The genuflection was de rigeur when one came into church, generally performed just before entering a pew. This caused some discombobulation when those of another religion followed a Catholic friend into a Roman Catholic church and nearly tripped over the person when the Catholic suddenly dropped to one knee ! wow
it sounds quite a bit like what we Catholics do prior to the reading of the Holy Gospels...
This brings back the image for me of going to the Buddhist temples in Korea, and watching the particularly devout performing ritual bows in altar pavilions ~ hands in "prayer position" (palms together, fingers up) and tapping the thumbs to the forehead, the chin, and the sternum (close enough to the heart for me). I guess I never really thought of it in Geoff's terms, "all that I think, and all that I say, comes from the heart", but I like that. I always regarded it as a thoughtful, sincere gesture anyway. Now you've given me words to put to it. Thanks, from the bottom of my heart.
I guess I never really thought of it in Geoff's terms, "all that I think, and all that I say, comes from the heart", but I like that. I always regarded it as a thoughtful, sincere gesture anyway. Now you've given me words to put to it. Thanks, from the bottom of my heart.
It warms the cockles of my heart to know I've enlightened you, FB! The meaning of the gesture was told to me by an Egyptian friend about thirty-five years ago, when we weren't supposed to have Egyptian friends.
Thus began a great purification ritual. Dressing only in the skins of the newly sacrificed goats, the priests ran about the foot of the Palatine… a major part of this rite was the lustration (light flogging or whipping) of citizens by means of goatskin strips, called februa. Anyone the priests encountered on their trek received a smack with these bloody hides. It was the women, however, who got most of the attention…
> That's happening more and more, as organ donors are in short supply
You didn't happen to read about those cases in Britain did you (I read it in Times). There's been a massive uproar concerning the hospital workers extracting organs from deceased patients (or PC its: negative-patient-output). Apparently some are robbed of so much, that which is buried is little more than a shell of their former (physical) self. Those heartless swines!
Sometimes it was hard to tell the swineherd from the swine. My father made a house visit to such an establishment, and the son of the patient felt it necessary to tell my father, "Pa's down yonder, You'll know him, he's got his hat on."
Swine resemblance My wife's aunt's third husband was a steel worker whose nickname was Lump-Lump. Lump was a large, heavy porcine individual who could be a lot of fun, but who was a dubious character most of the time.
On one famous occasion, he and a friend of his, named Louie, drove out to the country to see a mutual friend about some project or another, and as they were leaving, they noted a good-sized pig in an enclosure some distance from the house. Louie proposed to Lump that, since they couldn't be seen from the house, they should steal the pig. Lump was all for it, but the problem was how to transport it, since they were driving an ordinary sedan. They finally figured out that the only way they could get the pig into the car was to push it into the front seat between them (this was in the 50's and the car had the then-standard bench seat that went all the way across the front). They succeeded in getting the pig into the car and drove off.
As they were going down the road, at a fairly good clip so they could get the pig home before its absence was discovered, a police car came up behind them, lights flashing. Louie and Lump, not wanting to be found with a stolen pig, had to think fast what to do. Louie grabbed a blanket which was in the back seat and wrapped it around the pig's neck, and Lump grabbed his hat and jammed it down on the pig's head. The officer came up to the side of the car and asked to see Lump's license. After looking it over and telling Lump he was going a bit fast but he wasn't going to give him a ticket, he asked Lump, "Is that your brother on the seat beside you?" Lump replied that it was and he was feeling poorly and they were taking him home. The cop left, and they drove off, with Louie laughing so hard (he almost had a stroke trying not to laugh while the cop was within hearing range) that Lump had a hard time keeping the car on the road. Lump was so furious at being taken for the pig's brother that he stopped first chance he got and made Louie help him dump the pig in the field beside the road. He never lived down his familial resemblance.
"You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat"
(from memory)
You done tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat. Darlin', you just sorta, Mashed on my aorta. You started steppin' out with other guys. I played the part Of a lovesick lonesome fool Who got squashed upon his heart.
(from memory, of course!) [music note icon] Well, the race is on, and here comes Cryin' up the backstretch, Heartache a-goin' to the inside; My Tears a-holdin' back, tryin' not to fall; My Heart's out of the runnin', True Love('s back?) for another day. Well the race is on and it looks like Heartache, and the winner loses all. [music note icon]
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