Forever in Time

                 

                              "Forever in Time We'll Be" from Irene in Time - Andrea Marcovicci

After her husband developed a stroke, which took away his ability   to communicate, but not his expressiveness for love,
this story, about the brain and  loving relationships, written by Diane Ackerman appeared in the NY Times:

"Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. As imaging studies by the U.C.L.A. neuroscientist Naomi Eisenberger show, the same areas of the brain that register physical pain are active when someone feels socially rejected. That’s why being spurned by a lover hurts all over the body, but in no place you can point to. Or rather, you’d need to point to the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in the brain, the front of a collar wrapped around the corpus callosum, the bundle of nerve fibers zinging messages between the hemispheres that register both rejection and physical assault."

"Whether they speak Armenian or Mandarin, people around the world use the same images of physical pain to describe a broken heart, which they perceive as crushing and crippling. It’s not just a metaphor for an emotional punch. Social pain can trigger the same sort of distress as a stomachache or a broken bone."

            So, listen to this song of love, sung by Andrea Marcovicci. Doesn't your brain feel wonderful?