Seven Crucial Tips on Sore Fingers

If eyes are the windows to the soul, then what are fingernails? Some kind of decorative cabinet hardware?  If so, make mine Oil Rubbed Bronze please.

My fingernails look and feel like corduroy.  I know that studying my nails at this level might be a sign that I need to look for something better to worry about. Yet I can’t help noticing their ripple-y texture when my fingertips happen to brush across their surface.

And my fingers seem to have taken on a life of their own. They bend and curl without help from my mind. A kind of Yuri Geller effect. I wonder what it means, besides getting older and frailer, which is not news to me. Fingers and hands connect us to our world. How they feel really matters.

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