Handprint

painted fingersEvery single person’s fingerprint is unique. No hand is quite like any other. Which is no reason to stop there when with a little paint and effort you can really make your hands stand out in a crowd.

How do you highlight your own unique qualities for the world to see?

4 thoughts on “Handprint”

  1. How to you highlight your own unique qualities for the world to see?

    WOW – Mom jumped right into my head….don’t make a spectacle of yourself – don’t brag – don’t show off – etc. It’s not ladylike. She was very introverted and I have always been very extroverted. Much of my extroverted behavior seemed to her to be making a spectacle of myself. I understand the dynamic now but as a kid it often came off as shaming me for who I was. To answer this question today I have to say those old tapes still operate as I just don’t set out to highlight my own qualities. In the UU world we talk about stepping up and stepping back…I continue to work on stepping back. Interesting to think about this….I tend to embrace the notion that one can accomplish so much more if one is not worried about who gets the credit – which is another version of NOT highlighting myself. Recently with AO/AR/MC work another notion is being aware of how much space one takes up – physically – psychically- emotionally etc. so that’s yet another area where the message seems to me to say be aware you are not making a ‘spectacle’ of yourself Layne. On the other hand we sing “This Little Light of Mine” – polar messages. Hummmm

    1. What does AO/AR/MC stand for?

      I personally think there needs to be a balance between taking up your own space and avoiding taking up other people’s space.

  2. Probably just because it’s so comfortable, especially in my retirement years, I wear t-shirts. Most proclaim something about myself that I wouldn’t specifically talk about but want others to know of. When I wear my many years’ old Mother’s Day 5 k shirts, I am proclaiming to others as well as to myself that I used to regularly jog or walk the race each year. Then I have a variety of t-shirts that proclaim that I am a cancer survivor; I have more than 10 of those now. Travel shirts are always fun to wear too. Somehow it satisfies me to let others know, if they care to, that these represent ME! I also take the prerogative of looking (sometimes closely) at slogans on other’s shirts; it seems OK to me to read’em if they
    wear’em!

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