MAM Day Twenty Five- “Hands”

I goofed yesterday. I was up so late finishing my post it was past midnight and I called the post Day Twenty Five instead of Twenty Four. So now it’s time for the real Twenty Five to please stand up.

The prompt for March 24th was “Patchwork quilt” and “many hands make good work”. So I’m using Hands as the theme for my post today.

Circle of hands
The Japanese word “ma” means the space between two hands clapping. Similar to the Buddhist “kaon” (paradoxical saying) “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
Rodin sculpture of hands, 1940’s Life Buoy soap advertisement, hands of an old Italian craftsman, my Aunt and Uncle holding hands on their death bed.

Since this is the Anniversary of the DeafBlind advocacy organization I helped found, here are some photos of the hands of DeafBlind people showing the importance of the sense of touch through hands to communicate and to explore the world around them.

Braille, finger spelling in the palm, tactile speech reading, tactile signing
Exploring the world with your hands

Here is a list of the many expressions that have the word “hand” in them. Makes it clear the importance of hands in our culture.

  • On hand
  • At hand
  • Give someone a hand
  • Lend a hand
  • Have your hands full
  • Get out of hand
  • Wash your hands of it
  • Caught red-handed
  • In good hands
  • Hand in hand
  • Hands down
  • First-hand
  • Bite the hand that feeds you
  • Take matters into your own hands
  • Have the upper hand
  • Hand-me-downs
  • Hand-picked
  • Hand-over-fist
  • Hand in glove
  • Handsome
  • Hand it over
  • Hand it in
  • Handily
  • Second hand
  • Change hands
  • Try your hand at it
  • My hands are tied
  • Know like the back of your hand
  • Have a hand in it
  • Tip your hand
  • On the one hand…
  • On the other hand

Wow! Who would have thought there were so many expressions using the word “hand”.

Not going to let this post get out of hand now so I’m going to go to bed (and it’s actually before midnight).

Night night.

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