The Great Spirit made hands before he made eyes or feet, so people could learn to hold one another. Hands were useful for the hard ribs of trees or the soft tongues of flower petals. Hands discovered the dry uncertainty of snakes, the slipperiness of fish, the mystery of feathers. Hands found other hands and clasped together to embrace the oncoming world, unafraid. Two pairs of hands, burned by fire and cooled by water, felt their way along unfamiliar paths and then reached out and found they needed one another to make a home in the wilderness of their minds.
~Nancy Wood
~Nancy Wood
