Manos: The Hands of Labor

The past several weeks, I’ve been working in a friend’s metal shop, running a chop saw, drill press, and grinder, carrying beams from place to place, screwing in bolts and popping rivets into holes, and, in general, lending a hand with some of the more mindless aspects of what goes on there. The endproducts of our efforts form wheelchair ramps which are then shipped nationwide, although I still remain mostly ignorant of how the pieces fit together. As with anything new, I’m still learning wha...