[Magdalen] Tattoo

[Jon Egger]

Absolutely beautiful, Jim.

I am a veteran of five tattoos and may get another one soon...I am leaning
toward a remembrance of my father.  Yes, my body is a temple...my tattoos
are the stained glass windows.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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*
> >
>



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