false 4 0 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 16:31:48 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 16:25:14 -0700 2008
This was a very difficult book for me to read. For a number of reasons. 'nuff said.

Tim Russert wrote brief introductions for each section/category of letters. Here's what he wrote at the beginning of "Hands (and Feet)"

"Just as I used to focus on my father's hands Luke used to focus on mine. When he was little, at least once a year he would measure his hand against mine, palm to palm."

I read this and wondered if any of us ever measure up to our father's hands.

Regardless of if the hands are calloused and rough from factory labor, or if they are manicured and soft from a life of realitve "ease" do we ever stop comparing our hands to theirs? Do we ever measure up?]]>