1. The Beautiful Hands of My Father 2011 4

2. Smiled ?

3. trim the tiny nails thread the smallest needle braid the pigtail

4. Daddys hands had endless capabilities, from braiding my pigtails to successfully getting back a kite from the topmost branches of a tree. endless successfully topmost Words showing daughters pride

5. …there was no unfamiliar field to Daddys hands. Daddys hands had endless capabilities…

6. They comforted me through their touch as no words could. All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hands. -- Freya Stark

7. Stories of feeling parents love

8. tired pale trembling motionless age spot split callus beautiful? Daddys hands now

9. …made Daddy more wonderful than all the other fathers… No mothers hands, in all the world, were ever more beautiful than the hands of my father.

10. Read aloud with LOVE (Para. 7&8)

11. Find out more ways of expressing love in life. Share your touching story with friends. Homework