My week of re-runs–do you have scars on your “loving hands at home”?
Has your art or craft left its mark on you? Do you have calluses or scars that speak to the work your hands do?
I remember a fairy tale that fascinated me as a child. It was from the Grimm’s Fairy Tales and was called “The Three Spinning Fairies.” The three fairies all were physically marked by the work they did as spinners. One had a big, flat foot, from turning the wheel; one had a large underlip that hung over her chin, from wetting the thread; and the third had a very broad thumb, from twisting the thread.
The story gets me thinking about the ways our activities mark us. The musculature of the long-distance runner tells a tale of her hard work. The tanned and lined skin of the farmer speaks of a life working in the sun. I knew an elderly teacher who had develop…
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Don’t I remember Grimm’s Fairy Tales as if it were yesterday. i loved reading all those stories and just flipping through the book from beginning to the end. Thanks for giving us happy childhood memories!
I loved those stories, as scary and dark as they were. I spent hours reading them as a child and have so many of them still in my head!