I'm surprised that this poem was written in 2008. But it is still appropriate today.
Personally, I've never had a need for rings on my fingers or piercings on my ears nose or anywhere else for jewelry that I don't wear. I guess that gives me no status.
Tattoos have been around since prehistory. It seems obvious that they were often inflicted (painful) to offset pain in muscles and joints. Also seem to have been used to signify status in families or tribes.
Personally, like jewelry, I have no need to put some image on my body that would signify my belonging to a group or an ideology. Or simply to carry my art around with me when I just hang it on my walls.
We all know how to plan our actions, but we aren't always able to carry them out as we had planned. That's because things happen that we don't plan, and those things cause us to react. How do you control your reactions? God has all the answers in His
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Personally, I've never had a need for rings on my fingers or piercings on my ears nose or anywhere else for jewelry that I don't wear. I guess that gives me no status.
Tattoos have been around since prehistory. It seems obvious that they were often inflicted (painful) to offset pain in muscles and joints. Also seem to have been used to signify status in families or tribes.
Personally, like jewelry, I have no need to put some image on my body that would signify my belonging to a group or an ideology. Or simply to carry my art around with me when I just hang it on my walls.
Ron
Be always safe,
Karen