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To hug or to press
To hold and caress
To dismiss and impress,
To allow or forbid
To prevent or insist
To farewell and to greet,
To disrupt or respect
To allow or reject
To indulge or inspect,
To stop or invite
To instruct and ignite
To appease or incite,
To disarm and to heal
To pray and reveal:
Hands speak truth
Or conceal.
Inspired in part by Steve McMurry’s: Silent Language of Hands
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A lovely simple structure, and beautiful thoughts 🙂
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🙂 Thank you! Did you check Steve’s blogpost for the ‘inspiration’? His photos are exquisite.
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No I haven’t. And now I haven’t time. I’ll check it out tomorrow…. 🙂
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I’m sure it’ll still be there! 😀
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🙂
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Lovely. I never thought of how our hands “speak.”
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Communication is such an intricate, complicated, multi-layered thing, isn’t it? 🙂 I love it. Perhaps why I’m in the field I am in … 🙂
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True! There’s so much our hands actually do… nicely expressed!
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Thank you! It is amazing, isn’t it? How much we say without needing one word, and yet, say we do?
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Yes, all we got to be is to be sensitive n have the insight to comprehend the unspoken messages…
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Yes, and as with any modality, some are more expressive with their hands than others. And yet, many manage to understand the gist of what is being conveyed. Some of us do not … to the detriment of the interaction …
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