Annotations for Uncategorized: Ambidexterity

Gloria Anzaldúa: What’s today?
Chela Sandoval: I don’t know. I think it’s the 9th.
GA: Today is July 9th and Chela’s gonna read my palms. How about that?
[Inaudible]
GA: Bueno entonces…
CS: Let’s see, you’re right-handed?
GA: I’m right-handed but my left hand dominates.
CS: Do you write with your right hand?
GA: I write with my right hand.
CS: Were you taught to write with your right hand when you were little?
GA: [cross talk] I was switched when I was little

CS: [inaudible] left-handed?
GA: See, the part of me that predominates is the right brain. You know, whichever palm you put over first when you do like that? Okay you’re left-brained–I mean–you’re a right-handed person. I’m a left-handed person even though I write with my right hand.
CS: And when you grab for something, do you grab with your left hand?
GA: Um, up until it broke. I was doing most of the things with my left hand but then I broke this arm so then I started doing things with this right hand.
CS: So would you tell me that you’re left handed or right handed?
GA: Right now I’m right handed but naturally I’m ambidextrous. When I was little…
CS: When you were born, when you were born were you left-handed?
GA: Yes… I think I was.
CS: This is your left hand?
GA: This was in a cast so it's a little more wrinkled. But why don’t you read my right hand since that’s what I am now? They’re very different, no?
CS: Well the thing is that whichever hand you use is the hand that is the manifestation of your life as you're living it.
GA: mmhmm I’m right-handed.
CS: Your left hand, or your other hand--the hand that you use less--is a reflection of the potentials and the dynamics that you needed to work out in this life. For example, let's say it's your left hand. What’s written on your left hand is the markings of your spirit, the things that your spirit needed to work out, the things that your spirit wanted to work out. It’s a marking of the progression you’ve made up until this point–your spirit has made up until this point. The markings on your right hand, or the hand that you use the most, is the marking–marks the progression that you’ve made in this life.
GA: Okay do it on the left.
CS: Left being what you came in with…
GA: Yes
GA: And this is what I am now.
CS: Okay…

CS: Okay well, your fate line shows on your right hand--Is this your right hand?
GA: Yes.
CS: It shows an independence of will you might say.
GA: mmhmm, I’m very willful.
CS: But your left hand shows even more of an independence of will. And not only that, it shows that you have had a destiny that has affected the lives of many other people up until this point. And it looks like this is right at the point that you’re at right now. I mean, I don’t know which hand is the present hand, you know what I mean, cause you say you’re ambidextrous. Um- it's so weird. This hand is so weird 'cause, um-it shows--this shows a very strong will power. A very strong creation of one’s own destiny. Not like, if this line here were coming from this side here and coming up like mine does, this shows a life that is very much determined by other people. The whims of others or the desires of others–that sort of thing, But this shows a creative willpower–act of will which is carving out your destiny. And it also shows a destiny which is um…. Which is having a great influence on other people’s lives. I mean this is about, shows the life of [inaudible] Someone in their thirties, late thirties. But this…
GA: So you think this might be…
CS: What you came into the world with.
GA: And this is what I’ve made of it?
CS: mmhmm [inaudible] [GA and CS are talking at the same time]

JL: Are you left handed or right handed?
GA: I’m right handed, but when I was little I was switched over to right.
JL: But you were originally left?
GA: I think originally I was probably ambidextrous, but I remember writing with my left hand and my teacher telling me to write with my right hand.

JL: Listen, you’re lucky to be here.
GA: Am I?
JL: I mean, you’re here. You’re pretty healthy.
GA: I’ve come close to death a whole lot of times
JL: I know. You’re a strong lady-
GA: This- I broke that and the wrist bone. Two, three years ago.
JL: At this point you are right-handed though, right?
GA: Yes. I do not-I can’t write with my left hand anymore. I can do some heavy things, but mostly the fine things I have to do with my right hand.

[Start of Recording] Gloria Anzaldúa: You want me to take off my rings?
Tamara Diaghilev: No. Okay—have you ever had your palm read?
GA: Uh, yes—once.
TD: Are you right-handed or left-handed?
GA: I'm right-handed, but I was ambidextrous when I was little.
TD: Okay. I always read both hands.
GA: [inaudible]
[long pause]