On being left or right

I cannot say that I see much advantage in being a lefty, nor any advantage in being right. We have to use the whole brain. Similarly, we need to muster the whole citizenry if we want the nation to really blossom. I think we've have altogether too much of partisanship and not enough of commonwealth.

Anyway, one can certainly shift back and forth between modes. I am right handed, and I usually vote Republican, a fact that has gained me undue criticism here at Huff Po. But I'm an artist, and I sometimes draw with my left hand -- as here http://flowerstudiesaftercezanne.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_4875.html

and most the time I draw with my right hand -- as here http://flowerstudiesaftercezanne.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_7553.html

And I think both ways of drawing are wonderful. I began drawing with my left hand to see what it would be like to use the right hemisphere of my cortex in a direct way. Because it's not my typical habit, the line is shakey. And I discovered that I loved this wavering outline.

So, what do you suppose we might gain by getting outside our confort zones, from time to time, and looking at the world through the eyes of someone different. Lefties, I think you ought to all go hug an Evangelical today. It would do you good.