Today was my friend Yvette Jessen’s birthday. She is both a lover of Bears and a master craftsman in Teddy Bear creation. For her special day, I animated my dictionary’s ASL hand sign for BEAR. In a 2015 illustration, this left-handed cartoon sports fan shows the ASL hand sign for BEAR with the complete team pattern appearing on the shirt when she’s finished. Arms crossed over the chest, the hands claw at the chest twice for the animal’s two large paws.
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Some of the earlier illustrations in my dictionary are left-handed characters because, at this time, I was still learning Signers’ Perspective. Instead of becoming a problem, this was a happy accident that filled my dictionary with right and left-handed people, like in real life. My sister Theresa is left-handed too, so I kept my ‘lefty’ characters as they were, continued to make some more, and included a Side Note on Page 6 of my Dictionary that the Active hand in sign language is the signer’s dominant hand, which can be Left or Right, making the book accessible to all.
