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Monday  Oct 16, 2006

Every BODY Has a Story: Peace at the End of the Journey

EveryBODY has a Story: Peace at the End of the Journey

I got this tattoo done by Don Nolan, who is a real famous tattoo artist. He works at Acme Tattoo in St. Paul. He has a lot of work that’s been in magazines.

I got my tattoo done in 1980, when I was around thirty or thirty-one years old. I got Don Nolan to do it when he was going around to attoo conventions.

At the time, I was getting a divorce. It really broke me up. You think something is going to last forever, then it falls apart like that. It was a bad time. Everybody mellows over the course of their life, though, and I’m no exception. I was a lot rougher back then. I was a boxer for eighteen years, and pretty scrappy.

During the time of the divorce, I needed something to clear my head, something that would bring me some peace. I spent a lot of time reading the bible. In the book of Revelations, there is a story where God tells a woman angel to bring the seed of Jesus to Mary. The serpent devil will try to swallow you up and destroy the seed, God said, but if you succeed, I will give you the wings of eagles. You will live out the rest of your life in peace.

I found this story comforting. The face of the woman is so peaceful; it made me feel peaceful. I spent seventeen years single, but I am now remarried, and have a family. I haven’t read this passage in a while, but I still remember the way it makes me feel at ease. Wings of eagles…"

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