Tattooed Baby Dolls
When my kid begged for her first tattoo I anxiously mused, “Why go to such expense, pain, and trouble to design and indelibly inscribe an image or word on your tush?“ She was adamant about her right to confer marks of initiation on her skin, a rite denied by her elders. I started finding baby dolls at thrift stores. As a sharpie pen fan, I’d touch their “skin” and think, “Oooo that would be fun to “tattoo.” The first mark felt sacrilegious, something that only God, love, or life should allow. Would this ruin the baby? How could it?
I don’t believe we’re blank slates. I believe that we come into life full of the legacies of generational, genetic, and spiritual learning not to mention new contracts that guide us. Then our early childhood experiences powerfully imprint us.
Here’s to seeing our kids and parents as alive with living purposes, pasts, and futures. Lets baby our crazy selves in honor of the art and artist of it all!
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Comes a physical response to seeing the hand tatoos on skin backs. Seems like you’ve insighted that’s exactly where a hand should be at all times… to help affirm, ground, stand-with, sensually connect. Maybe it is the hand that belongs to the third eye.