Gadgets amazing!

By Rhiannonw

Tue, 26 Apr 2022
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Fingers sense
touch detail,
caress;
delicately manipulate
surgeon’s scalpel,
artists’ brush,
musical melodies fast and intricate.
Nerve networks
back and fore from brain HQ
coordinate
multiple muscles
and tendons
to work the digit widgets –
each thumb (opposable)
“lends a hand” –
not opposing!
supporting, aiding
the other four
to do so much more
than an animal’s paw:
efficiently
curling, picking,
selecting, separating
– engineering marvel,
magnificent, exquisite design:
no gradual emergence
with aeons to refine,
exquisite tools capable:
each of us responsible
to handle and use with care!

[IP: Hands]

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Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I think you've summed up the miracle of hands perfectly in this poem, can't imagine life without them.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny. We don't always appreciate them, and their such complex working and construction and design. An engineer wrote about them with such appreciation. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

 

I really liked this praise of our hands.  I am very lucky that mne still work well, at playing the organ and typing, although my hand writing is pretty awful. I attribute part of my luck to the fact that I have taken cod liver oil tablets for the last 35 years or so (recommended by my husband's aunt). At 40 I started having painful hands, and went to the doctor who just basically said, hand luck. That's arthritis for you, learn to live with it. I noticed how skillful my soon to e surgeon's hands are.  

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Aging affects different people in differnt ways. And there are sometimes things that can help. I'm glad you can still play freely. Beethoven could still hear in his head when he lost his hearing and Jacqueline du Pre lost the wonderful cello playing gift she had. I suppose then it is realised how great the gifts and abilities that have been used and enjoyed for so long. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Yes Rhiannon we are miracle machines with our eight ;digit widgets' and our thumbs.

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, indeed! Thank you Rachel. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by hilary west on

Hi Rhiannon,

Hands - what can one say about hands? I just know that the artists who paint without hands are pretty fantastic, doing marvellous artwork with their mouths or feet. The majority of us though just could not do that  !!!

hilary     yes

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, HIlary. It is good that they can make use in that way of their gift of capturing image with pen, but our hands are of course able to do so many things! We do take them for granted! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

What will they think of next!

 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks for reading, Tom. Not sure who you mean in your comment.

Nothing people design ever could come near the complexity of the sensitivity and usefulness and compactness of our hands, of course! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Something I remember my english granny exclaiming sometimes.

It was when there was a new invention something clever like a TV or whatever vacuum cleaner whatnot and they were pleased about it almost proud. Whatever newfangled gadget or clever tool. Can opener say, or sowing machine. What will they think of next!!

Those days there were many inventions every day some new gadget thing. Kind of a of wonderment. No end to their ideas! Sorry I thought it was some standard idiom I thought it was common. I'm not quite sure of the wording either. Thanks for asking.

As for hands, yes the best tools an engineering masterpiece as you say, the ultimate. Sometimes these days we forget to use and to practice our hands, even just forget of about them altogether.

Have a good weekend! Tom

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks for explaining, Tom. I just didn't think of it in the proper context. Our brains are wonderfully made to invent gadgets too, though never as wonderful or compact as our bodies' gadgets!

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Yes!