For centuries, fortune-tellers from all over the world have used palm reading to discern someone’s character and future. We all know Michigan’s Lower Peninsula forms the familiar shape of a hand, and if you squint hard enough, the Upper Peninsula does too (Squint. Harder. Keep squinting.)
Can Michigan be read, then, just like a palm? And if so, what can we learn about our state? We toyed briefly with the idea of walking over to the palm readers at Boston Tea Room in Ferndale with a map of Michigan to see what they could divine, but wisely chickened out. Instead, we decided to try our own hand at the art of palmistry. Here goes nothing…
This article appears in Aug 6-12, 2014.
