guitar woman

musician's hands

When my Dad took ill, it brought me great joy to be able to bring my guitar on my visits to see him.  It put a smile on his face and I hope made him forget about his pain for a time.

Music is life, music is emotion, music is healing, music is learning…music is everything to me 🙂

 

Submitted by:  J. Hart & S. Parnin

functional hand

the blue hand

This blue hand is located in the teen section of the Suffeld Library in Suffield, Ct.  The design is obviously inspired by artist Pedro Friedeberg.  Friedeberg designed the first hand chair in 1961 and he is known to have hated functionalism… To the contrary, this blue hand seems to be extrememly functional!

Submitted by: S. Parnin

hands in book stacks

a librarian's hands

I have been a children’s librarian for 17 years, but I have worked with children for 30 years. I love it. 🙂 At work I am known as Miss Wendy but the books think of me as their Little Bo Peep (with a significantly more mundane wardrobe.) However, I eschew Bo’s “leave them alone…” philosophy. If a book has gone missing it means one of two things: either it’s on a grand adventure visiting another book and I’ll need to get out my big boots, a treasure map and the magic gps, or — it’s shy. And with a little bit of love and reassurance, I can coax a shy book into revealing its hiding place for a trip home with a happy child.

Submitted by:  Miss Wendy & S. Parnin

utter unrest in a mother’s hands and words

As I am sure most people are watching the news about what is happening in Africa and the Middle East, I couldn’t help but be touched by the story of the woman who says she was raped by Gadhafi’s military.  I decided to post this video clip of her mother being interviewed being because her hands are visible at times.  This mother’s hands in action say so much to me, it is my interpretation.  Her hands are a loving mother’s hands, gentle hands, caring hands, concerned hands, anxious hands, angry hands, hands that would strangle.  Immense contrasts, but contrasts I will not judge.  I believe if I were in her situation, my hands would tell a similar story.

Where I sit, in the United States of America, thousands of miles away from this unrest (personal and civil), I pray for this mother and her daughter.  Even in the United States of America we are not free from oppressive acts of rape…no land is free from this barbaric act.   Naturally, I also pray for all of the people of Libya who are looking for freedom from 40 years worth of an oppressive dictator and his regime.  

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/03/30/sayah.libya.mother.rage.cnn