Tattoos - I just don't get it! How can you commit to one image , permanently? Moods change, blimey the "me" of say 10 years ago is one I'm glad to shrug off. How can one piece of iconography mean so much to you that you want it to stay with you forever? We are creatures of change, constantly evolving, to stagnate is to die. And surely a tattoo is a symbol of stagnation, of wanting to stay in one moment so much that you make it literally indelible.I can understand the ethnographic history of tattoos, to mark oneself as a tribe member, visible in battle . To some extent this has not changed (!), but pale imitations of once proud tribal markings, and once revered pagan symbolism, reduced to copies of copies of copies, and usually boiling down to dolphins, roses and abstract art with no intrinsic roots or spiritual starting point is crass, calculated and ultimately sad. Nuff said!
I broke a tooth! I tried to get an appointment with my dentist, he can fit me in at the end of September - wow!
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen” - Mark Twain
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Thats always the problem i have with Tattoos ...i love them, but could never have just one, and so would end up with full sleeves, and thats just not really appropriate .... the best i ever saw was a woman with a climbing flower would round her forearm ...looked beautiful, but then she was v fit ...my saggy arm might not look quite so gorgeous !!
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