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Quote of the Day: Hand Holding
“Hands are made for holding.” – Corina T., Nevada
I usually don’t get Dove chocolates but I saw some in the dollar store, had a craving, and picked up a bag. I’m a little aware of the quotes Dove includes inside the wrappers. Some find them insipid and rant against them. Others find them humorous. I enjoyed the above pre-Chinese Flu quote on my wrapper. With St. Fauci saying that shaking hands will be a thing of the past, this is a nice reminder that people need a human touch.
Now to class it up a bit from a quote on a Dove wrapper. I wrote this post last week when I bought the chocolate. Yesterday, @aaronmiller shared this following quote in the PIT and it fits the theme.
Published in Group Writing“A handshake is a mystery or a sacrament; there is something visible about it, namely, the clasping of hands; there is something invisible and spiritual too, namely, the communication of friendship.” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen
“He’s touching me!” —from the backseat of a car.
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I miss the human touch, the hugs of friends, the casual touch of someone’s arm. I will be sad if they don’t come back, at least with those I’m close to.
It bothers me – a lot – that I can’t greet business people with a handshake, or conclude the business that way. It’s an affirmation that there is a relationship beyond the “deal” or the “transaction.” I like thanking a vendor or provider that way. I agree @susanquinn – it’s a big loss. In a non-business situation: doubles teams in tennis who touch and speak after each point (won or loss) win more often. Humans need physical contact to thrive.
This shows how out of touch Fauci is as a human being.
Yesterday the Catholic cathedral here offered anointing of the sick in honor of the feast of St. Luke, who was a physician. The anointing is normally done by the priest marking a cross with his thumb or finger on the back of the hands with holy oil, but they did it via cotton swabs.
“Mother, she’s breathing on me!” “Mom, he’s looking at me!”
This most of all infuriates me. The bishops are probably just bowing to legal demands, but the implicit message is that Christ’s holy sacramentals can be corrupted and condemn our bodies. It borders on sacrilege.
Among most family and friends I know, we continue to hug and shake hands. But I only see that in homes. In public, everyone at least assumes the other person doesn’t want to touch.
It’s unacceptable. If COVID-19 doesn’t surge with a vengeance these next couple months, I will push as much as I can in personal interactions for a return to normalcy.
This election will be the most contentious in living memory. Those rituals of greeting and thanks are more important than ever before to hold Americans together.
We had our piano tuned at the end of July. When the tuner finished, he shook my hand. It felt normal. I don’t like the elbow bumps.
I was quite pleased when my across-the-street neighbor reached out for a handshake both when he came over last week to ask me to keep an eye on his place as they went off to attend a wedding, and this morning as I went over to his driveway to find out how the wedding went.
I also think one of the things a handshake shows is two people meeting or agreeing as equals in human dignity. No bowing or other gestures that might suggest one or the other is of superior or inferior position in a hierarchy of human dignity. I suppose an elbow bump might eventually achieve such status, but based on how long it took for the handshake to be the universally accepted communication of mutual respect, I’m skeptical.
She’s looking out my window!
And, if someone is shaking your hand, he cannot have a weapon in his.
I understand that is particularly why the tradition is to use right hands.
The same with the right-handed salute. It is said that is was to raise the visor and show one’s face, or to raise an empty hand showing peace.
Unless he’s a member of the Assassins’ Guild.
I know something you don’t know. I am not right handed.
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
Ooooo. (Rethinks plan.) Ah, I’m not right-handed, either.
You may look right-handed on Zoom.
That wasn’t me.
Massages bridge of nose with thumb and forefinger. Thinks I sooo didn’t wan’t to get all pedantic. Should’ve known. It’s Ricochet.
Thanks, everyone, for pointing out that, when shaking hands, there’s still another hand. Updating my SOPs time now.
As a southpaw, I’ve always appreciated that we shake with the other, benighted hand. But, anyone who has an expectation that there might be a weapon in the off (usually left) hand should’ve trained to use the leverage he gains by the very nature of clasping hands to forestall or neutralize an off hand strike with open hand or weapon.
That something has been used to deadly effect on occasion. See Judges 3:12-23.
Prohibiting handshakes is just one more way to destroy Society. We should resist mightily.
Touching is gross.
Southpaws are more likely to be schizophrenic or to be serial killers.
This is not the thing to say to a former special forces officer.
It’s on the internet. I am safe.
🤣
It comes from trying to get by in a right handed world.