In picking up an ordinary yellow legal pad today I was reminded of discovering a wonderful little shop in San Francisco years ago, especially for left-handed folk. A quick online search reveals that Lefty's on Pier 39 is still in business, in a larger location, and yes, for those of you outside the Bay Area, with an online store. I also learned that August 13 is Left-Handers Day. Who knew? Well, obviously, a lot of lefties as manifested by the plentiful photos of left-handed children wielding tools made especially for them - scissors, spiral bound notebooks (the spiral is on the right or top), cooking utensils, ergonomic pens and pencils, rulers, mugs, and garden shears.
So, if you have a left-handed child in your family, consider making their life a whole lot easier to navigate with products that will help them succeed, or a book such as A Left-Hand History of the World by Ed Wright, about famous lefties in history which will inspire your lefty!
Our son is soloing in a one-man art exhibition Astral Flight Hangar at the Christopher Henry Gallery in New York. The exhibit includes a giant icosahedron on the center floor reflecting magical geometric projections of shapes and colors. He started drawing geometric shapes and Escher-esque tessellations as a child. We still have the left-handed ruler he used - purchased at Lefty's. :)
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