"HANDS THEY ARE MAGIC"
Doll Street had a challenge on making your mute... the one in you who talks to you, guides you thru your creative blocks..
I at first was totally lost on my mute and what she was....
During the past month I found out from two doctors that I had Raynolds Phenomen... it has effect the fingers on my rught hand and is now spreading to my left hand and my right foot...
It is where the blood vessels constrict and cut off the blood flow...My fingers will turn blue, then stone white and very numb and cold like ice cubes.. after awhile, they turn red and get very hot..Sometimes the pain is like a bad tooth ache. The doctors said I have to cut way back on my design work and my doll making....
When I was first told the above, I had a huge gulp in my throat as working with my hands is what makes me .... me... one night I had a bad attack and was thinking of what I will do if someday I will no longer beable to create with my hands... then is when this poem came to me...
Some day I may not beable to create with my hands, but I will always be able to create in my mind and my heart... oh the dolls that I can enjoy creating in there!
Hands they are magic.....
The wonders they create...
You take them for granite....
That they will always be there...
When they turn blue, white and numb
You wait breathlessly for the red to come.....
Hands they are magic...
The things they behold...
Designs & dolls come alive...
With the gentle touch of all five (fingers....
You sit & wonder what life would be like.....
If the blue, white & numbness, silence them for life...
Hands they are magic...
The things they can hold...
The mute in my heart will always be there...
To birng up the magic that the hands couldn't hold...
Sam Stafney.... 2/13/2000