Saturday 27 November 2010

THE SINISTER HAND

What an equivalence....Broken humerus=new skills.

Despite the pain and the inconvenience of having just one arm+hand available (functional), I feel
rather positive and optimistic since I got a chance to get new skills. I need challenges, either big or
small, to make my days more complete and meaningful, to keep going forward. In fact, I’d say
challenges are directions, impulses, strength.

Try, using just 1 hand, to....

...peel tangerines
...fold t-shirts
...open pots
...peel and eat bananas,
...put pantyhose on (easier than slim-fit jeans, actually)
...press ALT and ENTER keys at the same time (I use it often when working with MS Excel)
...knit (holding somewhere the needle with the work...and knitting left-handedly)...and cast on, of
course.

The so-called sinister hand is not that sinister when it becomes dextrous. What a pair of
adjectives. I read at Wikipedia about left-handedness and there was a lot of pretty interesting
information linking linguistics and prejudices and stigmas against left-handed people.