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July 23, 2012
So much held in a heart in a lifetime.
When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child,that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the wordsI have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children. -- The American Scholar: Joyas Volardores - Brian Doyle
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 23, 2012 2:30 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
The Wizard turns to the Tin Man and speaks to him:
Wizard: As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart! You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. I could have been a world figure, a power among men, a - a successful wizard, had I not been obstructed by a heart.
Tin Man: But I still want one.
Wizard: Yes -- ....
Posted by: Fat Man at July 23, 2012 10:44 PM
Mr V, and Fat Man
Thanks
Posted by: OhioDude at July 24, 2012 5:55 AM
Presently patching the brickwork around my heart while slowly inching toward a heaven-sent heart-breaker. It will be the last time to venture outside before the wall is completed.
Posted by: drdave at July 24, 2012 7:21 AM