Heart Work (Aorta)

This is only tangentially linked to the previous two entries. In fact, it's almost an afterthought. It's something I've been thinking about a for a long time and especially recently with all this discussion about the "illusion" of a meritocracy. When Trey Parker and Matt Stone created The Spirit of Christmas, they did not put…

Heart Work (Left Chamber)

I hate the phrase "1% Inspiration/99% Perspiration." I understand it, and I don't disagree with it in principle, but too many people assign the wrong values to its numbers. As a wise one once said, "Numbers don't lie. People do." Think about it. What exactly do those percentages represent? Are they time spent on a…