HANDS

HANDS: What they do, where they go, how they feel, what they tell us, and when…...
The hands that touch, feel, and show as well as the hands that are hiding in words. A meandering in pictures and words expressing hands not only as useful, telling or beautiful appendages but also as descriptive words. I shall meander with camera in HAND.

The telephone rang recently shortly after 8:OO a.m. I answered, and it was the Red Cross Blood Bank wanting to speak with Harry. I figured it was to remind him of his next appointment. He’s given blood since he was 19, twice a year while working, and since retirement every 54 or 56 days. (I can never remember which it is.) I was in the other room when I heard lots of talk coming from the study and thought that peculiar. Usually, they remind him of the date, he says he’ll be there, and hangs up. On this day there were words, sentences, and changes in the volume and pitch of his voice over a few minutes.

“Guess what?” he said as I stood at the sink brushing my teeth. His face was flushed and he was grinning from ear to ear. “I won an HDTV! I can’t believe it! I’ve never won a thing before!”

"I can HANDle this," he said with a great big smile.