“[T]he human hand is a wonderful and exquisite instrument to be used in a hundred movements exacting delicacy, direction and force; every such movement is a cause of joy as it leads to the pleasure of execution and the triumph of success.”87 I am reminded of this “exquisite instrument” in some of its first encounters of holding a crayon, tying a lace, and molding clay. I am also reminded of the “cause of joy” from these first movements to the varied exclamations of delight and the self-fulfillment in seeing what hand hath wrought. This joy is not usually sustained past the primary years of
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