The Way We Write
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On the blank page, our mind guides the writing hand. That hand guides the pen. That pen shapes the word. That word spurs the mind to keep writing on, and each stroke of the pen holds the potential for a new thought, a new story, and a new world.
Like Leonardo’s left hand dominance, our bodies are encoded in our writing. I found that handwriting even encodes the heartbeats of our bodies. When we enlarge a digitally recorded handwritten line, we can clearly see each heartbeat’s trace, almost like a lie detector, as detailed in the video below.