Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Today, The Matter Of The Heart .
It is all about the heart, that is the most important thing. Listen to your heart,  Roxette says it, she was right. The heart is connected to everything, it pumps blood, it keeps us going, and brings oxygen to our body. Our heart can tell us a lot about ourselves and the decisions we need or want to make. Listen to your heart, it communicates the truths that are most basic to us. Remember, the heart is the percussion in the music of our life, it sets our rhythm. The beating, pounding, and thumping of our hearts alerts us, to danger, and to love. What a feeling when you see the person you love and your heart explodes! Love flows with each beat, through every pore of your body. The Drifters (the band) sing about “This Magic Moment”. It is magic, how someone else can elicit or bring out such a strong and warm feeling. Listen to your heart and you will find love. Once you fall in love you run the risk of getting your heart broken. That sucks! So you might try to steal someone’s heart. If you succeed, you will be in love and it will be reciprocated. If you don’t, you will get your heart broken. But that is the price we pay. There is no free lunch. When you get your heart broken, it is as if the feeling of love goes in reverse, even though love is still there, there is no hope for reciprocation. The heart breaks. How do you explain to your heart this basic life lesson, just because you feel it doesn’t mean it is there. The object of your affection does not feel the same way about you. Heartbreak. You had your heart set on something happening, that relationship, for instance. You might have your heart set on something else, like getting a job, going on a trip, or buying something at the store. When we were children, we might have had our hearts set on Santa bringing a particular toy. A heart might sink if you get a sweater instead of a toy. If our parents taught us correctly to repress our feelings, we smiled and said, thank you, this is great. I will enjoy playing with this sweater so much more than with a  Barbie Dream House. Listen to your heart, it tells us things! It gives us clues or even strong messages about what we need and want, and where we should be going. The brain is there to work out how to get it done in an ethical and legal way. Well, at least that is my expectation. You might be on a path on your way to building something, on a project when you have a change of heart. That means you changed what you wanted and realized you wanted something else. I had a change of heart I no longer want to swim across the ocean. Or maybe, you lost heart. This means you no longer feel capable of crossing the whole entire ocean. I kinda like the fact that you thought you could cross the ocean swimming in the first place. Kudos to you. 
Ahhh the fact of the matter is some projects cannot be left half-done. Sometimes you have to finish, like when you decide to swim across the ocean. You get the metaphor. 
Things can change in a heartbeat that means it changes from one moment to the next. In an instant. I think a New York Minute is the same amount of time. It lasts just as long. The phrase, in a heartbeat, is a great answer. Would you marry me? In a heartbeat. Would you buy me an ice cream? In a heartbeat. Would you write a story with me? In a heartbeat. There is no hesitation in that answer, that is how clear and true the answer is. Your heart skipped a beat when you saw the person you fell in love with it can also skip a beat when you get bad... Continue Reading