These hands have never done an honest days work! Just look at them. Not a scar. Not a callous. Not a disjointed joint. Un-muscled, (remember, they never did an honest days work). They’re not large, but not small for a tall man.
Not recently manicured, but not bad. Nails, neatly trimmed. (There was a time when there were no nails from nail biting, but that’s a story for another time). But if you look at the nails closely, the vertical lines will tell you these hands have been around for a hell of a lot of decades. Another give-a-way is the skin, wrinkled when the fingers are extended and elevated.
No these hands are the hands of a business executive that never did much more than write: evaluations, recommendations, and sometimes, terminations, but while they may have never done an honest days work, they’ve given employment, encouraged careers, and helped others enjoy the abundant life, even unto succeeding generations.
Hal Fishbein September 25, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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