- The brain, hearing and visual equipment
- The heart and lungs and
- The baby-basket.
Bone is porous so it’s relatively light and, when broken, has the capability of mending itself stronger than ever. However, your body must have resilience and “give” as well as stability and strength. Nature has to keep your heart and lungs functioning constantly even when a 240-pound guard tackles you or when you fall out of the cherry tree or when you take a jolting step off a ladder.
If Nature hadn’t made our bony cages flexible, we would be a pile of bone bits the first time we were rear-ended. Notice that our feet are arched, that our spine is a long soft “spring” made up of gentle curves, that the forward end of each rib turns into tough elastic cartilage and that the bony spinal vertebrae are separated by plump squishy disks. Still, step off that ladder carefully.
Be well. Breathe beautifully.
