I was watching our Governor Maura Healey’s State of the Commonwealth address the other night.  As you might expect, there were lots of applause throughout her address, some more vigorous than others.  As they always do, there was an interpreter doing sign language.  How is it that I have never noticed the sign language for applause? 

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I am loving this on so many levels – and the intensity of the sign language changes based upon the intensity of the applause.  I am going to use this myself from now on whenever I, or someone else says or does something worthy of applause.