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Let's Give Our Thumbs a Hand

by Greg Asimakoupoulos

Posted: July 11, 2010

Celebrating an often-overlooked digit…

Imagine life without your thumbs.
You couldn't pick up coins or crumbs.
You couldn't hitchhike easily
or sign the alphabet.

Those digits on our hands called thumbs
allow a cop to cock a gun.
Without them bowling would be hard.
We couldn't get a grip.

You couldn't button up your suit
or play the clarinet or flute.
You couldn't even hold a key
to open your front door.

Jack Horner couldn't pluck a plum
if he was missing both his thumbs.
And Thumbelina and Tom Thumb
would be unknown to all.

You couldn't thumb your nose at life
or use chopsticks to pick up rice
You couldn't say that you're all thumbs
although that's what you'd be.

Let's give our thumbs a great big hand
and thank the Lord for what He planned
to give us freedoms dogs don't have.
Let's give God two thumbs up!


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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.

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