Lefty
In every way...almost...
Being left-handed is weird. We don’t realize it while we’re growing up. But studies have shown it effects our lives in many ways, from mortality rate, to intelligence, to creativity, compared to right-handed folks.
Even though I am decidedly left-handed, I grew up inadvertently doing certain things right-handed. For example, with three brothers and several boy cousins living nearby, and a large side yard, we played a lot of soft ball as kids. Although I instinctively threw the ball left-handed, it would never occur to 10-year-old me that there was such a thing as batting left handed. Monkey-see-monkey-do, I picked up the bat the same way everyone else did.
Decades later, my natural instinct was to pick up the golf club right handed. After several years of traumatized golfing, I found a pro who helped switched me to lefty. It’s still a strange feeling, but no one can deny that I hit much better. However, my putting was good, so I still putt righty. Weird!
Life is better after switching my golf swing from righty to lefty. Conversely, having grown up Republican, life is better after switching to Democrat! This change was the result of my college education instilling critical thinking in me, giving me enough Socratic wisdom to be open to listening and learning what it really meant.
For thousands of years, southpaws were vilified as "unholy,” linked to various learning disabilities, and implicated in a range of behavioral and mental health conditions.
Lefties are still referred to as “sinistral” in the scientific community, a term
derived from the Latin word “sinister,” meaning “of the left.”
As recently as the 1960s, children who displayed tendencies towards left-handedness in the American public school system were “corrected” to write and eat with their right hand.
Juggling is an ambidextrous skill. In college, my friend Ted Streusenruder (sic), a highly skilled juggler, taught me to juggle. I’ll never forget what he said.
“If you know where the balls are going to land, you know where your life is going to land.”
I think it means, focus on what you want.
🤹🏻♀️🤹🏻JUGGLING VIDEO 🤹🏻🤹🏻♀️
Another fun fact Ted told me was that it’s impossible to juggle with your eyes closed. All I know is, I keep looking up.
My shots of the Super Blue Moon, August 19, 2024 🌝
BONUS
My first attempt at capturing the Super Blue Moon rise on video.🌝🌚
Ms E I am left handed also. I got that way because I sat across the table from my father at family meals. He was a righty and so I always used my left ( his right) hand because I copied everything he did. The only lefty in the family and right side oriented otherwise. A lefthanded with an asterisk! Lol
I as well, am a lefty and was not appreciated by the teachers in school who tried to convert me to write with my right hand. I failed penmanship. I also got my hand dirty all the time from rubbing it over the ink on the paper. Boo Hoo. But I excelled in sports! Hit home runs all the time so the heck with penmanship. And I loved oil painting. So it didn't matter if I wrote with my right or left hand.