RECEIVED: Heart Matters from Cheryl Penn - South Africa Connection

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

You know it is going to be great when you see those fish stamps on the envelope in your mail box!

"Heart Matters" on the outer envelope...and a really-red envelope was in that envelope:

The threads...the ties that bind! ...binding....binding....building...building

Reverse side of "binding"...The Secret Heart! (Cheryl seems to be reading my very soul!)

Carefully, always carefully, opening the inner really-red envelope, the word: "breaking".

A breaking heart :-( Breaking the ties-that-bind? :-( Breaking into the secret heart? :-)

Within: there is a small booklet, stitched heart, and the illusion (photo) of a volume of pages! 

And the poem within:

"Circle of Seeing"....it's an Open Book! Thank you soooooo much, Cheryl!

.I just LOVE it! A HEARTfelt Thanks!

[cheryl penn]

You brought this back to my attention :-) - Yes, Toxic Bachelors - its an altered book - STUFFED with meaning   :-) X

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

And the 'pages" are of a "Toxic Bachelors" altered book? Wow! Now we are talking "meaning' here, Cheryl.

Any more "clues" that we should know of????

Sewn " trying" to close the wounded heart...with "RED" threads, of course...

"Building"...and I originally read it quickly as "binding"??? I am a-Freud that is the case.;-0

[cheryl penn]

I saw that :-)- heat matters!!! - Then I also thought, yes it does, so it can stay ;-) - and DVS - thats not so oppositional is it? You both KNOW the movie? My, my - mind you, why am I surprised??? As a matter of interest - that book photo - an altered book - Toxic Bachelors - MAN! Whats going on with my choices, have to STOP being so unconscious!!! Its telling.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Heat Matters...and Heart Matters....and a heated heart matters!

What a film: "The Secret Heart"! Classic!

...with Claudette Colbert and June Allyson! My, my, my!

And Walter Pideon, even some Robert Sterling...and Lionel Barrymore! Classic! 

[cheryl penn]

The Secret Heart - a movie made in 1946 ;-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

:-) It is good to have context...clues...some in-put from the artist, you know.

BUT, as Bruno would say:

no badges!

"...now I shout it from the highest hills...even told the golden daffodils..." lalala

[cheryl penn]

Thank you Kateriana :-) - getting into trouble all over the show in my search for meaning :-) - going to find myself in a lonely tree in an isolated landscape one of these days :-).

I have sent this envelope to a few IUOMA friends to return the secrets of the hidden heart to me for a book - Heat Matters. Of COURSE it MATTERS!!  I'm afraid DVS was right here ;-) - BUT you adding new meaning - thats a goodie for me today! Thank you for the blog X

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

:-) thank you, sir professor...perhaps there are several MEANINGS implied. After all, "meaning' can come from viewer's point-of-view (pun) !

Oh, and that song? Hee, heee...ya hafta know that sappy chick flick with Doris Day:"Calamity Jane"

(go to youtube for enlightenment?)

"Once I had a secret love, 

that lived within the heart of me,

but all to soon that secret love,

became impatient to me free...

at last my heart's an open door...

and my secret love's no secret any more"....sigh.

[De Villo Sloan]

Kat, that is such a perfect example of our personal meanings. I just assumed it meant: "My heart is no longer an open book." I'm not familiar with the song (and it's still early morning here - not completely awake). Hey, you recognized Matt Stolte's vispo was a cell phone. You must be right.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

OR...highlighted, and therefore emphasized...in RED?

"at last my heart's an open book...and my secret love's no secret, anymore..."(paraphrasing the song)