Hearts of Many Colors

  It's still February the month of St. Valentine and the Age of Aquarius and  I have hearts and heart symbolism on my mind.  The following are images of a watercolor painting I did about two years ago and a lithograph by me approximately twenty years ago.  I don't know why I every so often return to the heart motif.  Well I do know why I did today.  It's still February but beyond that.  The heart is a universal symbol for love and was believed to have mystical properties.  In ancient Egypt the heart portion of the soul was balanced against a feather to reveal the truth.  Therefore,  I feel I must be truthful and tell you it's really about something that happened to me many years ago. When I was in the first or second grade I went to an extra class after school one day.  In that class we were taught that there were hearts of many colors but the only pure heart was a white heart.  That stuck with me.  I did not  believe it but I always thought it was a funny thing.  Another thing about the heart is that my mother and her two sisters died from heart failure or heart attack.  So I do listen to mine.

The teacher of that class would have said a green heart is not a pure heart but I like it because it's environmentally friendly.

i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings

 

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)