by Jule Kucera | Jun 7, 2026 | Blog
The Hand is complete, but there are a couple of flourishes I like to add. Above The Hand, I write my word of the year. For 2026, that’s ‘animal,’ a reminder that I’m not a head on a stick. Below the hand, I write something else I don’t want to forget. It could be a...
by Jule Kucera | May 31, 2026 | Blog
Like the pinky finger, people often minimize this area of life: Play. Play is whatever is play for you, things you love to do so much that when you do them, time is meaningless. For me, two of those playthings are working with clay and taking photos. Another is having...
by Jule Kucera | May 24, 2026 | Blog
The ring finger has an obvious alignment for an area of life: Love Is there really a blood vessel that runs directly from the ring finger to the heart? I guess it doesn’t matter—our culture has made that connection. Originally, and for a long time, I listed family and...
by Jule Kucera | May 17, 2026 | Blog
Skipping blithely past the standard meaning of the middle finger, we’ll give it our own: Contribute. If the first finger is Create, the work I do for pure joy, the second is the work I do for other reasons. Over the years, the actions I’ve associated with this finger...
by Jule Kucera | May 10, 2026 | Blog
When I was creating the Hand, I had already retired from my corporate job. As I asked, How then shall I live?, I turned to Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. It’s based on the course they taught at Stanford, the most popular course at the university....
