Throwback blog

http://tattoosandthings.blogspot.com/?m=1

I had started this blog with the intention of creating informative space for people to learn about tattooing, tattoo culture, and tattoo safety. 

I stumbled upon this page actually in the process of doing some research and I was like 'hey wait a minute I wrote that'

So this certain little blog is a part of my story I no longer have that email address and so I can't access it to pick it up again but tattooing has certainly been a subject of fascination and interest for a long time I've done several projects focusing on tattooing. I've  done research proposals on tattooing subjects as well as being tattooed myself. 

An excellent book to check out is called 'Bodies of inscription' it gives a historical look culturally and sociologically about tattooing. It's a very good read for anyone who's interested in the subject. 

Why Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Human Psyche

Why Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Human Psyche

For the love of change

Life is about change. Sometimes it's exciting, sometimes scary, but it happens, with dread or enthusiasm. 

The signing 'meh' of forlorn ambition. Go with it. Resist it. Aim for it. It'll happen anyway. 

Do not neglect your ability to direct the change!

We are all running out of time. 

GO! NOW! 

DO!

The public discourse allows for many different voices, and my story may not be very different from others.

 But my experience is unique on unto itself. The specific intersections of faith and health and gender and race and desire are specific unto me.

I know that there are thousands of other women who look so similar to me that you may call me by their names.

But I also know that every single one of them has a unique a story to tell.

YOU HAVE A UNIQUE STORY TO TELL.

Don't presume I will be like others who look like me.

It is my deepest desire that all of humanity would one day come together as one big family.

To cherish all people. Encourage one another, look out for one another, go!

Live as a community, now!

Reject ideas that separate us, Do!

Love your neighbors! 

Why time out?

Time out vs. spanking may be a debate for child rearing techniques, but is also a metaphorical approach to self care. 

 When one punishes them self for wrongdoing, messing up, or any other failure, real or imaginary, they inflict emotion pain on them self. That pain can motivate one to not screw up again but it can also prevent someone from exploring other solutions if they continual obsess over the failure and do not learn to let it go. In order for you to let go of  mental punishment you must spend time reflecting on what happened and imagine how it could be better. This is time out. Then from there you can make a plan how to do it differently and more successfully next time. 

How you can tell if you are punishing yourself or reflecting? 

Would you say it to someone you care about? 

There is a time and place for both, in self care and child rearing. Be patient with yourself and allow yourself to learn at your own pace. Remember, this is a journey, not a race to the finish line. It will come soon enough.

A hero by any other name

Does it really matter? The most recent marketing ploy to draw more audience members ( namely female ) into the marvel hero's fandom has caused quite the buzz, for good and ill. But does it even matter?

 Who cares if Thor is a female or male, the character is the same. There are other stories in the history of story when characters have been gender irrelevant. 

Meaning, you can tell the same story weather the character is either gender because the essence of who they are is not wrapped up in their reproductive organs.

 The effort is a clear marketing ploy because the response is coming at a time when strong women are the hottest thing at the box office. 

 Now people are opposed because the felmale Thor has too perfect and unrealistic of a body, and others are mad that they made her female at all "the downfall of society" ect.

I personally feel for them to be successful in this the writers will need to keep the values and character in tact and not make the story about what she does with her organs. 

That is the essence of good story telling, true character, not gender stereotypes. 

Weather they are successful in delivering this, we will have to wait and see.

Griots

I'm actually kinda embarrassed that I only recently learned this word.  

griot[ gree-oh, gree-oh, gree-ot ]

noun

1. a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.

Organized chaos

Or perhaps I should rather say disciplined creativity. 

One of the most important things you can do as a storyteller is to discipline yourself to keep telling stories and also to listen to stories. Stay open to exploring and learning new things.

It has been said that if you want to learn how to write, then write.

If you want to learn how to do something then do it and through practice and disciplining yourself to continue to develop that skill means doing the thing that it is that you want to get better at.

I have to laugh at myself sometimes because I have this blog and as of yet I have no followers but I'm not doing it to have followers, this blog is about me disciplining myself to keep up a blog.

As I develop my skills as a story teller & blogging about story telling it brings a focus to how I engage with the world around me. I am cognasant of messages, searching for their cultural origins, and peeling back layers in order to learn how to apply those symbols for the specified meaning. This is the aim of communication, clearity, this requires practice.

So while the world may bombard you with a plethora of messages, most of which conflicting, you may cut through the red tape jargon and know the true meaning.