Then I blinked and, for just a moment, the hands holding the spool were the chipped-nailed, calloused hands of a harelipped boy.
I watched the way his sandals pounded the pavement, slapped his black, calloused heels.
It was small, the skin dry and calloused.
And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
Then, prep extra dry and calloused areas with a thin layer of lotion.
My student hand, clean and soft, on his laborer's hand, grubby and calloused.
Hassan and I stand ankle-deep in untamed grass, I am tugging on the line, the spool spinning in Hassan's calloused hands, our eyes turned up to the kite in the sky.
The calloused pads of his fingers brush against Hassan's eyes.
The calloused hands he rested on the wire fence were cracked, and every crack was a black line.
