hands

I have been thinking about hands a lot lately. I've been blasting Hootie and the Blowfish's "Hold My Hand" when I'm alone in the car. Reminds me of our summer of '94 (annual) road trip back home to IL from the kids' summer camp in VT.

With a little love, and some tenderness

We'll walk upon the water

We'll rise above this mess

With a little peace and some harmony

We'll take the world together

We'll take them by the hand

cause I've got a hand for you

cause I wanna run with you

Hold my hand...want you to hold my hand...

Lovely Spirit in Practice class last night. At the end of each session, we stand in a circle. One person starts by turning to the person next to them, taking their hand, looking into their face and saying, "I take your hand in my hand, so that together we might do what I cannot do alone". That person takes the next person's hand and so on, till we are all holding hands. A very nice way to head home...

I had an idea for a wall hanging and sketched it out in the late 80's, and began work on pieces of it then. Inspired by a quote from Shakespeare's King Henry the Sixth: 

Now join your hands, and with your hands, your hearts.

Now that I have finished and delivered what I am calling "Imagine More", (the theme of the school's auction, see quilt below), I want to revisit the Shakespeare idea. Perhaps I can use what I started with in the 80's and bring it into the present.

It was hard to let this one go...

And remember that many hands make light work.

Happy weekend!