This is my paw . I wish I could say I was on my way to the boxing gym , but that was n’t the case . I wish I could say that this — the patch — happened while I was climbing , or surfing , or skateboarding or mountain biking or even just hiking … but I do n’t have a cool story behind it .

This come about while I was gardening . Pruning , to be exact . An fanatical trim and a rusty pair of scissor grip made for a very sudden mishap and a head trip to the ER . Some sutures and a tetanus shot after , I was post home with a afflictive branch and a throbbing bridge player once the anaesthesia wore off .

It was my first metre ever get stitches or going to the hospital in my 33 yr of being a tomboy . For gardening , of all things . How extreme is that ?

And while I ’ve been run about my business ( or examine to ) , I realized something .

My whole day revolves around my hands , whether I ’m gardening , cooking , chicken coop cleansing , ukulele practicing or even just type . In fact , I ’m typing this all with one helping hand , and it ’s kind of a bitch . ( Flashback to seventh - level typing family where I finger - pecked my way through the first week … except back then , I could at least make a chapiter letter quite easy . I actually started this Emily Post last night so I could end it this good afternoon . )

I cognise I ’ll recover ( and somewhat quickly , as the stitches should fare out in two to three workweek if all go well ) but sitting here , somewhat out of charge , is really giving me a newfound appreciation for my hands .

It made me think of all the little things I will truly wait forth to at the end of the month : Holding my pugs in my arms . Harvesting a hefty basket of love apple . Shampooing with both hand . Slicing a lemon tree for my pee . Eating edible corn on the Larus marinus . Even moisten that first dish by hand ( ha , who knew I ’d ever saythat ? ! ) . Thank good I ’m right - handed , at least .

Unless you ’re say , a climber or an creative person , you likely are n’t aware of all that your hands do on a daily foundation . Look at them again . They are magnificent official document .

Since clicking around on the web is much well-situated than respond to emails right now , I spend my day google hands . ( I ’m the eccentric of person who sit down in front of the telly with my laptop , just so I can Google the thing on idiot box I find fascinating , like destinations on “ House Hounters International ” or politics from “ The Newsroom . ” ) And I do across theseinteresting facts about hand … For example , did you know that the human handwriting is unique not because we have opposable thumbs , but because of the power for our little finger and gang fingers to hit across our palm and match our ovolo ? That sleight and flexibility is part of what makes our hand so knock-down .

love yourhandsome activities this week , whatever you cease up doing !