Our hand, that marvel of evolution, the maker of wondrous
things, the destroyer of beauty. Equally capable of giving a caress as well as
of delivering a fatal blow. The hand that writes poems in exquisite
calligraphy, is as adept at signing death warrants. The hand that builds is also the
hand that demolishes, that which takes as well as that which gives. The hand which
plays beautiful music, can also beat the drums of war...
This post is part of the Wordless Wednesday meme,
and also part of the ABC Wednesday meme,
I've never thought my hands were pretty. I say that I inherited my grandfather's hand. My mother and grandmother had beautiful long fingers with shapely nails. My fingers are short and stubby and my nail never grow long and hard enough to file into pretty points. But boy can my hands work, and for me that is more important. Thanks Grandpa. - Margy
ReplyDeleteYour prose got me thinking. A kind hand can quickly turn violent. Shudder.
ReplyDeleteWorkers used to say that you could always tell the physically lazy upper classes by their hands. Delicate hands showed the owners never did a day of labour in their lives!
ReplyDeleteOh, THAT way!
ReplyDeleteA piece of the miraclemachine of our body
ReplyDeleteHave a splendid, ♥-warming ABC-Wednes-day / -week
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