Life, love, college, beginning family, career, raising family, and, now, twenty-first century politics-- poetry, prose, verse, and worse, have helped me retain emotions, mental imagery, pain, pleasure, and sensations beyond the physical images-- while allowing me to unload, purge and/or amplify and savor life's events, in my own way. Perhaps some gems or baubles may be found amongst these pieces of heart, this treasure from my chest.