We continue our journey into the Napkin’s archives with a collection of hands. This collection also happens to contain my favorite quote of all time. See if you can find it.
Hands are Handy
One of the reasons I used hands when I first started doing these drawings for my daughters was that they were very easy and fast to draw. I was drawing 3 drawings per morning to stick in their lunches so I had to be fast. I could quickly draw the hand with one line and have it express an idea. I liked that. Then add in that it was easy for the hand to represent something greater than self, from another world, and it was a no brainer to use the hand for ideas related to God, religion, hell, heaven, theology, etc. It came to represent more than that but that is where it started.
Here is a selection starting in 1998/99. The first napkin is undated but the only undated drawings I have are, for the most part, from those 2 years.
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1998/99
Original post – ‘Sleeping Girl’
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2001
Original post – ‘I Am An Atheist Still’
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Original post – ‘Thinking Clearly’
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2002
Original post – ‘We Are All Imprisoned by Facts’
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2003
Original post – ‘The Fingers Must Be Educated’
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2004
Original post – ‘The Unexpected Life’
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Original post – ‘The Test of a Religion’
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2009
Original post – ‘If There is a God’
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Original post – ‘The Intent of Theology’
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2010
Original post – ‘Man Must Be Disappointed’
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2011
Original post – ‘Religion Was Science’ – Creation vs Evolution #4
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2012
Original post – ‘Perfection and Progress’ – The Perfect Perfectionist Series #3
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2014
Original post – ‘The Moment of Good Fortune’ – Wealth #1
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Drawings by Marty Coleman
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Fave quote – is it your own “the unexpected life,” or maybe “the man disappointed”?
It’s mine – ‘Life is much more unexpected…than I expected’. I want it on my tombstone!