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Nature’s Heart: A Dedication to The Children of Syria

Circuit Surfers, Perfusion Art

Editor’s Note:

I found this picture on a FB page for a perfusion related FB group. Was amazed at how nature truly replicates itself in so many different forms.

So this is the picture of the day- not necessarily Perfusion Art, but certainly a reaffirmation that there are no coincidences in the grand design of things we behold as life.

I try to stay as far away from politics as possible- but human life is what we as perfusionists work to preserve.

A prayer to all the children of Syria…

Frank Aprile

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