Family Tattoos
Just gonna copy/paste my post about this from another message board, in order to get it here on the blog…
I was raised in a big family. 7 sisters, 2 brothers. I am #9 of the 10. Many of my nieces & nephews are adults - some are only a few years younger than I am.
Last Saturday night, in honor of my oldest sister being in town (she’s the only one currently in another state (along with a couple of nieces who are in army & navy), we had a family get together at another sister’s house (she lives in the house we all grew up in). At that party, the sister who had a phone consult with a medium, shared her story about that whole thing - bringing back even more memories of mom & dad for all of us.
Apparently, sometime after I left the party, the remaining sisters & adult nieces (and maybe a brother) had a few too many cocktails & decided that, this coming Friday, before oldest sister goes back to Colorado, we should all have a pajama party at the old house, again. And, this time, we should hire a tattoo artist to give us all matching tattoos (that will be designed by an artistic teen niece and will include a shamrock with the letter ‘F’ (for Farrell - our family name) written on it in my dad’s handwriting).
I have no tattoos. And, I’ve never really wanted one. I am both intrigued by the idea, though, and a bit scared of the potential pain.
One really big issue that I have with it is that two of the sisters are currently not speaking to each other. One of those two is at her condo in Florida for a month or so, so she won’t be at the party -and- I really don’t want her to feel even more ostracized than the present sister is making her feel. So, I may just skip it as a show of, well, not solidarity with her, because I can really see both of their points of view, but as a sign of ‘I will not be a party to anything that separates us’, KWIM?
