I was raised in a family of 7 assorted chuildren. I had one full blooded sister (same Mother and Father) I had 3 step brothers and one step sister, then one half brother after my Mother married my Step Father. In that family of 9 people every one was right handed. They were crazy as hell but they were right handed.
I married twice and had two children from each marriage, of these 4 children two are left handed. Both of my husbands were right handed. I had a son and daughter from each marriage, the son born first each time. Both of my daughters are left handed. I also raised 3 step daughters, one of whom is left handed. I guess I defied all the odds, as all the reading and researching that I have done says that 7 to 10 percent of the population will be left handed. I am wondering if left handedness is more common in females than males. Then I look at my daughter with whom I live, she has 3 sons, two of which are left handed and that theory goes oput the window. I can't find any hard and fast theory about the difference in right/left handedness. In my reading it seems to be believed that left handed people are more creative than right handed ones and that makes sense as leftys are right brained and the right part of our brain controls our creativness and right handed people are more logical because they are left brained and apparently the left brain is in charge of logic. Yet when I look at my children I can't always agree with that argument.
My children, including the ones I raised are really all over the map. One is a lesbian, one a born again Christian, one has been trouble with the law and knows what the inside of a jail looks like, one has worked for the same Company for nearly 40 years and is Mr responsibilty, really wierd considering he was born to a 16 year old me who seemed to be destined to blow in the wind most of my life, and then my baby, my left handed little girl, who knows how to love and care for all; plants, animals, family, frinds and all people of the world and does so in her own unassuming way.
What a fortunate woman I am and have been to have of these people and the wonderful people that they produced in my life. Thank you to the Universe for the gift of these people.
Afternoon Thoughts
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012............2:12p.m.
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