Joyas Voladoras

One of Brian Doyle's most beloved essays. He moves from the impossibly fast (ten beats per second) pencil-eraser heart of a hummingbird, through the vast room-sized heart of the blue whale (so loud it can be heard two miles away), to the human heart and its tiny chambers we so carefully build and so carefully hide. A short, lyric meditation on tenderness, mortality, and the universal vulnerability of being a creature with a heart that can be broken.