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Hands can reveal a lot about a person. For example, a city slicker, a paper pusher, or someone who sits in front of a computer all day. will generally have soft, smooth hands.
Someone who does regular, hard, manual labor outdoors in all kinds of weather, however. generally has hard, rough, calloused hands. The former will have clean, clear, neatly trimmed nails. the latter has thick, broken nails, with some degree of dirt showing under them. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character certainly would notice such things.
I, too, noticed them when I was growing up. I noticed especially my maternal grandmother's hands. Nannie, we grandkids called her. Perhaps the most prominent feature of Nanny's hands was that they showed unmistakable evidence of arthritis. The knuckles were swollen and enlarged, hard and painful looking things.
I especially recall the knuckle on her index finger. where the finger joined the palm of her hand. and the arthritis had drawn her index fingers inward toward the middle fingers in a painful curve. Her hands must often have hurt her because she continually rubbed them. and she sometimes massaged into them various lotions and ointments, such as Kaz Walker's Supraderm salve.
I often wondered as I observed Nanny's arthritic hands if there was a connection between arthritis and hard work. because Nanny's hands were always hard working hands. If they were not busy doing some kind of work, she was patting the arm of her chair with them, or tapping the side of her leg, or rubbing them. Her hands were seldom still. Nanny's hands had washed piles and piles of clothes long before she got an automatic ringer washer.
I recall mothers recounting how Mondays were wash days. They built a fire. Back in the yard, heated water, and then carried it to the back porch, where they poured it into a large tub. In went the dirty clothes and the lye soap. And then Nanny scrubbed the clothes on an old washboard.
the hot water and the lye burning her hands bright red. Then those strong hands rinsed the clothes and wrung the water from them before hanging them on the clothes line to dry in the bright sun and the clear country air. Nanny's hands were also busy in the kitchen, preparing and then frying or baking various foods. Peeling and mashing potatoes, shelling peas, breaking and stringing beans, peeling and slicing apples or peaches. or kneading and rolling out bread dough.
She was always fixing, or had just fixed, something, so there was always something to eat at Nannie's house. One could always count on her having some kind of dessert in the kitchen. Coconut cake, stack cake, chocolate cake, apple pie. Her crusts were always what we kids described as stout. meaning that one could hold a piece of pie in hand and eat it without its breaking apart.
And my favorite fried apple pies. One of them was a meal in itself. almost as good as a moon pie. Like a moon pie, one of Nanny's fried apple pies and an R C. cola would sure ruin a guy's supper.
Nanny's hands were also expressive. She used them a lot when she talked, gesturing, pointing, waving. all motions designed, subconsciously of course, to further communicate whatever she was saying. and they often covered her mouth, Not only when she was suddenly surprised by something or alarmed by what she had just heard. but also when something had tickled her and she was trying to suppress a laugh.
But Nanny's hands, arthritic, disfigured, tired, and worn though they were, were most of all kind and gentle hands. They could as easily wipe away a tear, calm a fear, comfort homesickness, and clean a scrape. as they could carry in a heavy bucket of coal to feed her hungry, warm morning stove. They could as easily and gently caress and put the hand of a young grandson just going off to college. giving tactile proof of promised prayers.
as they would grab and break off a switch with which to administer grandmotherly discipline. To some people, Nanny Summers's hands might have seemed unsightly. perhaps even ugly. But to me, Those hands were among the most beautiful and most lovely hands on earth. And what a beautiful peace.
A special thanks to Monty Montgomery for the production and to Dennis Peterson. An author from South Carolina. for sharing this story. Of Granny's hands, which he is so right, they can reveal a lot about a person. And that most prominent feature that he'll always remember are the unmistakable signs of arthritis.
Her finger joined the palm of her hand. contortions of arthritis.
Well when you look at it, you know it's painful. He continually rubbed them, he said, and they were hard working hands. He wondered if arthritis came from hard work. And Nanny's hands did more than work. They were expressive, Dennis Peterson told us.
and she used them a lot to talk. But most of all, Nanny's hands were kind and gentle hands. To some, he said, Nanny's hands were ugly. But to me, they were beautiful. And as I hear Dennis tell this story about his nanny's hands, I can't help but think of Bill Withers, who tells, by the way, a remarkable story about his own grandma's hands in my favorite Bill Withers songs, and one of my favorite songs, Grandma's Hands.
Go to YouTube and look for a Bill Withers concert version as he tells the story of his grandma's hands. Dennis Peterson's story about his nanny's hands here. on our American stories. Boom boom boom. Lee Habib here, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts.
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