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Friday  Mar 03, 2006

EveryBODY has a Story: Acorns on My Knees

“It was kinda a Cinderella story, you know? Except the part at the end where she moves into the castle and gets rich…

A few years before I got the acorns on my knees, my mom died. Things got really tough. Tough in every way- no place to live, no cash, no mom. But I had my brother. He and I stayed in this little house all winter trying to figure out what to do. We didn’t have heat, and we didn’t have much food, so there was a lot of time for hanging around thinking.

Coincidentally, it happened to be one of the coldest winters on record. My brother and I spent a lot of time looking out the window. I don’t even know why- maybe we thought something good would fly out of the sky if we were fast enough. Nothing flew out of the sky, but we did see this gang (and I mean gang) of squirrels. They were always out there- chattering, climbing, digging and always either eating an acorn or on the hunt for an acorn.

“The acorns are like the crap in life we have to go do” my brother said one day. “These squirrels are showing us- we gotta figure out what we want, and move on it”.

I think we had probably gotten a little squirrelly watching those damn rodents eat so much but my brother suggested we get the acorns inked on our knees so that when we looked down at them we could remember to get up and figure our stuff out.

It sounded like a great idea to me. Course we didn’t have the money to get them done for another year, but stuff started moving after that. My brother got into the Rhode Island School of design, and I got a job where I made some cash, finally.

He came back to visit me a year ago and he drew out the acorns for the tat. Since then he paints, mostly, but he also designs other tattoos for people who want them. He gets a lotta requests but I bet no one will think of that one again.”

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