[Magdalen] Tattoo

[Jay Weigel]

Jazmon Gwathmey, who played basketball for JMU and worked at our local
Costco while she was here and is now with the San Antonio Stars of the
WNBA, has a an almost full "sleeve" on one arm. It kind of put me off at
first until I learned that it was a tribute to her older brother, who was
murdered when she was a freshman in high school. Jazmon is a young woman
who I got to know slightly while she was here and who I admire a lot. She's
very fierce on the court and quite soft-spoken and polite off it.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nadia Boltz-Weber, the radical Lutheran pastor and founder of The House for
> All Sinners and Saints congregation in Colorado, has many tattoos,
> including "sleeves." I was so turned off the first time I saw pictures of
> her, that I didn't even want to read anything she had to say.  But in her
> first book, "Pastrix," she explains them--one of the sleeves is a portrayal
> of Mary Magdalene's story--so they don't bother me quite as much.  And I've
> heard her speak/preach twice and read both books.  She is amazing. And her
> congregation has been taken in as a legitimate ELCA congregation.  But the
> tattoos still bother me...
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:25 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> > >>>Some women have their mastectomy scars tattooed over ... google
> > *mastectomy
> > tattoos* and click on images if you dare. I think they're gorgeous and
> such
> > a wonderful way of reclaiming your body.<<<
> >
> > My twice-mastectomied mother, even when younger, would have said,
> > categorically, "Yack!"
> >
> > (I haven't looked at the pictures; I'm merely relating what she'dve said.
> > If looking at it all today through a modern lens, she might have actually
> > considered it.  Hers left her considerably scarred.)
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
>
> *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
> Bonhoeffer*
>