HAPPY LEFT HANDERS DAY
#lefthandersday
Welcome to the official site for the 25th annual Left Handers Day!
August 13th is a chance to tell your family and friends how proud you are of being left-handed, and also raise awareness of the everyday issues that lefties face as we live in a world designed for right-handers.
I was browsing through the net, looking for something new (to me), interesting, creative, inspirational and soothing to post “at the end of the day”. This is what I crave for after these recent days. Something where my soul can feel comfort, peace and tranquility.
I think I found it. I would like to share it with you.
Hope that you enjoy it as much as I have.
Tom Barabas is an American-Hungarian pianist/keyboardist. He studied classical music at the Caracas Conservatory in Venezuela before developing a taste for rock, jazz, and New Age.
~~Childhood~~
Barabas spent his childhood in Hungary, and emigrated to the US in the 1960s, living and composing in San Diego, California. In the classic style of great, onstage performers, Tom Barabas delivers a musically eloquent experience that builds rapport with his audience and invites them to fall in love with his graceful streams of sound.
An Early Start – Tom began playing music at the age of four in Budapest, Hungary. By age 12, he had attracted the interest and praise of his piano instructors and he made his public debut at the Liszt Conservatory of Music.
In 1949 his family emigrated to Venezuela where he studied classical piano and composition at the Venezuela Conservatory of Music in Caracas, Venezuela’s “Juilliard”. He earned his Master’s Degree in 1957.
~~Reviews~~
“Tom’s performance was sensational. The artistry of his music and his personal charm enriched the evening for everyone. We thank him for sharing his exceptional talents with us.”
Nancy Mulligan, ASPEN Productions, Inc.
National reviewer, P.J. Birosik’s response to Tom’s music echoes the sentiments of his fans across the country – ”Barabas composes richly harmonic and well-articulated pieces that satisfy the soul and stir the imagination.” He performs with an intimacy, spontaneity and living warmth that sets him apart from other instrumentalists. His technique combines classical, Latin and jazz traditions in an unmistakably personal and joyful style.
This post started when I found the video included below. My intention was to write about how hands work to put things together. However, the original thought evolved into something more. I found pictures, anatomical information and a link to the wonderful post by Steve McCurry.
I hope you enjoy this.
From an anatomy standpoint
“A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered extremity located at the end of an arm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each “hand” and fingerprints remarkably similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having either “hands” or “paws” on their front limbs.
Fingers are some of the densest areas of nerve endings on the body, are the richest source of tactile feedback, and have the greatest positioning capability of the body; thus the sense of touch is intimately associated with hands. Like other paired organs (eyes, feet, legs), each hand is dominantly controlled by the opposing brain hemisphere, so that handedness, or the preferred hand choice for single-handed activities such as writing with a pencil, reflects individual brain functioning.
Some evolutionary anatomists use the term hand to refer to the appendage of digits on the forelimb more generally — for example, in the context of whether the three digits of the bird hand involved the same homologousloss of two digits as in the dinosaur hand.
The human hand has 27 bones, not including the sesamoid bone, the number of which varies between people. 14 of which are the phalanges (proximal, intermediate and distal) of the fingers. The metacarpals are the bones that connects the fingers and the wrist. Each human hand has 5 metacarpals and 8 carpal bones.”
Hands are very powerful in every sense of the word.
They express so many things. They can “talk” in sign language, they can show tenderness and love, they work hard to put things together. Like spoken language, they convey our innermost feelings. They are the perfect means of expression. They are an extension of ourselves. They show how we feel: happy, nervous, sad, creative, purposeful, angry, violent.
They can help and they can hurt.
The sense of touch is so revealing of the the individual’s intention.
“Our hands often reveal what we really think but do not say. They can show a range of feelings and emotions from confusion and frustration to joy, understanding, love, and compassion.”
~~Steve McCurry~~
“Hands calm us, feed us, and scratch our backs. They intimidate, bless, encourage, and stop us. They soothe and caress. They draw our attention to the good and the bad, often suggesting exuberance or fear.”
~~CHARLES FLOWERS INTRODUCTION TO ELLIOTT ERWITT’S HANDBOOK~~
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”
~~RUMI (1207 – 1273)~~
~~Honda ‘Hands’ – The power of dreams~~
~~Published on Jun 29, 2014~~
This amazing commercial from Honda shows the power of human hands, and their ability to transform the simplest of things into complicated machines. Please visit and subscribe to http://www.youtube.com/MadOverAd to watch more amazing commercials from around the world.
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