I have been invited to speak for 10 minutes at our local UU church on the subject of love, having to do with Valentines Day. I am one voice of several. Love is a messy subject that concerns us all, and so what do the hands grasp of love that our intellects perhaps do not? I invite my readers to share in the formulation and refinement of my thoughts for this brief presentation. Think about your hands and the relationships with others in your lives. An obvious suggestion is holding hands. What does that simple thing tell us about love? Help me out if you like. If not, proceed. Carry on. Make, fix, create. We may be rowing against the tide for now, only to be best prepared.
Today in my wood shop I'll be continuing to work on my final cabinets for the book. The key cabinet is shown in the photo above complete with a working door knob.
Doug-
ReplyDeleteSpeaking with our hands. We use our hands to communicate while we speak. Everyone does this. Very rarely do we have a conversation with somebody where we are not using our hands to help convey the meaning of our thoughts and words. Can love and emotion in our hearts be expressed with the help of our hands during conversation? I think so, but then again, I am a romantic realist. Wish I were in the audience at the church.
-Chris
Susan Goldin-Meadow's research on gesture, indicates that the hands speak more truthfully than words alone. Thanks for the suggestion for my talk. I'll publish it here first, so you will not have to be attending. It will be brief.
ReplyDeleteDoug:
ReplyDeleteI come from a culture where people touch, and they hug each other. It's a part of love, of contact, just as making something with our hands for someone is an expression of it.
Mario