LET'S SHAKE ON IT!

    THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025

        LET'S SHAKE ON IT!

  June 26th is "National Handshake

Day!" The handshake is a universally

accepted greeting throughout the world.

It stems from the Middle Ages when

one knight would come across another

and show that his hand was not holding

a weapon. Since most people were, and

are, right handed the greeting is extended

with the right hand. Of course there are

now various forms of the handshake.

Some are quite elaborate as when a 

baseball player hits a home run and is

greeted at home plate by fellow players

with all kinds of hand and arm gestures.

Some folks have modified the traditional

handshake to become the "fist or elbow bump"

or, perhaps, the very popular "high five!" 

I enjoy greeting people. I always thought

a big hug would be best, especially when

a lovely woman is involved. But my wife

has developed another hand signal involving

a raised fist that suggests I'd be better off

sticking to a handshake! Hope you're

greeting people on this special "Handshake

Day" and that all your NEWS is good!