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Ok, so this is going to be really random, but it’s something from my writing class that I wanted to share. We were tasked with describing a specific hand and its characteristics, and I couldn’t remember any specific hands, so I kind of cheated.
We are often told not to bite the hand that feeds us, but which hand specifically? The hand that feeds us can refer to many different hands, from the hand that signs our paycheck at the end of every other week, to the hand that signs into law the bill proposed six months prior. Or perhaps it is the hand that caresses us, comforting us as children after we fall and scrape our knee, or that graceful multi-digited appendage playing so beautifully over the ivory, creating music, transporting us to a faraway land.
Or a friends hand, held out, palm up, fingers slightly curved, inviting your hand to clamp down upon it and complete a bond of friendship.
the hand that signs our paycheck at the end of every other week
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Your work should be feeding whoever signs your paycheck at a rate of at least 20% more than what you are being paid. Otherwise, that hand is either Uncle Sam’s hand on a velfare-chekale or a hand that will soon break under the burden of too many employees or not enough work.
c’mon, everyone, lets give this young man a hand!!!*CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP
very nice peice, soliek!
soliek, a wonderful piece, thanks for sharing.
Very creative and enjoyable reading
Your piece (which I enjoyed, thank you) brought two thoughts to mind. Firstly, my father was an artist and he told me that hands were the most difficult thing to draw. I remember he would take pictures of our hands in different positions when he needed to draw someone’s hands. Why would a hand be more difficult than an eye? I would think a nose would be even more difficult. But maybe it is difficult because it has to capture the essence of the persons intent in their gestures not just the physical structure.
Secondly, not biting the hand that feeds you requires you to admit you are being fed at the hand of ‘someone’ and to stop and think, not about which hand is the one feeding you, but just how many hands are candidates. How many people are involved in you being fed, how many hands to have hakoros hatov to.
Thanks for the inspirational thoughts!
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