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!
"Circle of Seeing"....it's an Open Book! Thank you soooooo much, Cheryl!
.I just LOVE it! A HEARTfelt Thanks!
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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
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!
:-) 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
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
:-) 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.
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)
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