head_and_heart_redux raze the brain has an incredible ability to adapt itself to compensate for areas that are damaged or no longer present. cortical remapping, they call it. a classical composer whose name escapes me suffered a stroke in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. though he survived, half of his brain was obliterated. he could no longer speak or understand words. language was lost to him forever, and yet he went on composing, and there was no deterioration in the quality or complexity of the pieces he helmed. he could still communicate through music. the heart is not so accommodating. but it has its own music to make. 140826 what's it to you? who go blather from