The meaning behind your blog.

Day 2:
"Where your heart is" 
Definitions for the word HEART

1. Anatomy

a. The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.

b. A similarly functioning structure in invertebrates.

2. The area that is the approximate location of the heart in the body; the breast.

a. The vital center and source of one's being, emotions, and sensibilities.

b. The repository of one's deepest and sincerest feelings and beliefs: an appeal from the heart; a subject dear to her heart.

c. The seat of the intellect or imagination: the worst atrocities the human heart could devise.

3.

a. Emotional constitution, basic disposition, or character: a man after my own heart.

b. One's prevailing mood or current inclination: We were light of heart.

4.

a. Capacity for sympathy or generosity; compassion: a leader who seems to have no heart.

b. Love; affection: The child won my heart.

5.

a. Courage; resolution; fortitude: The soldiers lost heart and retreated.

b. The firmness of will or the callousness required to carry out an unpleasant task or responsibility: hadn't the heart to send them away without food.

6. A person esteemed or admired as lovable, loyal, or courageous: a dear heart.

7.

a. The central or innermost physical part of a place or region: the heart of the financial district. 

b. The core of a plant, fruit, or vegetable: hearts of palm.

8. The most important or essential part: get to the heart of the matter.

9. A conventional two-lobed representation of the heart, usually colored red or pink.

10. Games

a. A playing card with this figure.

b. A card game in which the object is either to avoid hearts when taking tricks or to take all the hearts.

So Where is my Heart?

My heart is located under my rib cage, to the left of the sternum and between the lungs. My heart is an amazing organ. Shaped like an upside-down pear, this fist-sized powerhouse pumps five or six quarts of blood each minute to all parts of my body. (we hope)

While Blake may find that sort of information more enjoyable. I will be (try to be) posting things on this blog that is more on the emotional and characteristic side of the definition HEART. and where is that heart? it is in the places that we go the people that we love and the things that we do to make life worth living. 

Enjoy more ramblings tomorrow

Jamie