We continue our journey into the Napkin’s archives with a collection of hands.  This collection also happens to contain my favorite quote of all time.  See if you can find it.  

Hands are Handy

One of the reasons I used hands when I first started doing these drawings for my daughters was that they were very easy and fast to draw. I was drawing 3 drawings per morning to stick in their lunches so I had to be fast. I could quickly draw the hand with one line and have it express an idea.  I liked that. Then add in that it was easy for the hand to represent something greater than self, from another world, and it was a no brainer to use the hand for ideas related to God, religion, hell, heaven, theology, etc. It came to represent more than that but that is where it started. Here is a selection starting in 1998/99.  The first napkin is undated but the only undated drawings I have are, for the most part, from those 2 years. ____________________   1998/99   sleeping girl   Original post – ‘Sleeping Girl’   ________________________  

2001

  Atheist thank god   Original post – ‘I Am An Atheist Still’   _________________________   clenched fist   Original post – ‘Thinking Clearly’   _________________________  

2002

  facts   Original post – ‘We Are All Imprisoned by Facts’   _________________________  

2003

  fingers_sm   Original post – ‘The Fingers Must Be Educated’   ___________________  

2004

  unexpected2_sm   Original post – ‘The Unexpected Life’   ___________________   Religion Test   Original post – ‘The Test of a Religion’   ________________________  

2009

  Atheism    Original post – ‘If There is a God’   ___________________   theology   Original post – ‘The Intent of Theology’   __________________  

2010

  value   Original post – ‘Man Must Be Disappointed’   ______________________  

2011

  evolution   Original post – ‘Religion Was Science’ – Creation vs Evolution #4   ____________________  

2012

  perfectionism   Original post – ‘Perfection and Progress’ – The Perfect Perfectionist Series #3   _____________________  

2014

  wealth1-2014_sm   Original post – ‘The Moment of Good Fortune’ – Wealth #1   ______________________   Drawings by Marty Coleman   _______________________

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