I just turned 46 (it sux...LOL) and I love tasteful tatts and pierced belly buttons. Since I love canine, I enjoy a neat, well placed tatt on the small of her back.
A pierced clit is so much fun.
Even pierced nips are great.
And I like to have fun.
I like younger and experienced and trim.
Put a tatt anywhere you want and I will kiss it!
Same goes for piercings.
Oh, let's not forget the wonderful ladies with pierced tongues.

I agree Terri, Jolie is back, I hope to stay. Missed you sweetie, hope to see you on the 17th.
Teri, I'm going to call you in the next day or two re: my long-awaited meeting. You must promise to be kind!!!

Hey BB, I'm trying to make it to the Board Mtg on the 17th. I want to check out those "Baby Blues" and see if they are the best in the USA. BB, are you familiar with Diana Krall, the jazz pianist and ballad singer? She has a song on her CD "When I look in your Eyes" I think you'd like the song and the artist.

A fireman that I knew said he started out as an EMT (medical part of it) and the first week there were two separate infant (newborn) calls. Both not breathing at time of arrival. One died. Mother was holding the baby when the ambulance got there. I ask many questions when I knew this fireman and the painful details.

A four or six year old boy, with parents who did not speak English, died from a reckless driver on the interstate. He was dead at the scene. How do you tell the parents their child is dead and that is why we are not rushing him to the hospital but instead this other guy that killed your son because there is a chance he may make it. You would not actually say that, but that is what the parents would see and you would know that.

A man driving down a back road coming around a curve too fast over compensated and ended up in the wrong lane killing a man from the head on collision. The other man coming from the other side of the curve may have had a family (surely someone loves him). They tore the reckless drivernout of his auto because he was still alive. The deceased victim would be torn out too, but priority is given to those still alive. Another unit (I suppose) would come for the deceased.

After so many of these dealings, one would lose that passion I would think. Eventually, it would not hurt to try to explain to the parents that their child is dead. Eventually it would stop hurting I would think. The mind exposed to things regularly enough will be trained to accept things.

Strike has seen some hard things in war. Many others have as well. Their mind may have trained itself to deal with it as firemen do. I have noticed that for some people things always bother them and they usually avoid speaking of it. Some though, things do not bother them once they get used to it. I feel that a passionate person it will bother. One without passion can breeze on by without emotion inside or out. Images, sounds, smells, etc. do not come back to haunt them ever. For me, everything from a scene would stay in my mind until I lost my mind or died. Some individuals can watch films such as "Faces of Death" and it is at times comical or man that guy is just s*it out of luck type of attitude. I cannot watch any such film myself though. I am too passionate towards life to see destroyed.

Now teachers, nurses, doctors, social workers, and so many others see deprivation, neglect, abuse, etc. There are children in this world (outside of the States) that get put out in the city on a road with gangs of other children like an unwanted dog or cat would be put out. For that matter, stuff like that does happen here in the States, but not often. I feel that an abused child has a better chance to make it than the two children that died (I mentioned above) have. Any form of abuse is wrong I will say. But, I know it could always be worse. I know that I cannot change the world and it disgust me to hear or see a person abuse their children in public even it happens. Being an abused child, you may learn from the abuser’s mistakes and grow up to be one very caring and understanding person. The children I mention above will not get that chance to grow up. A teacher can spend quality time with the child to expose them to a loving environment and let the child know what normal is. The child may try harder to work towards that normal life someday (who knows maybe the child can help cure the abuser with whatever issues they have). The thing to me is life still exists in a child a teacher is teaching. When life ceases to exist is when I could not deal with that pain. Firemen see that more than any other profession I could think of.

Hope I did not ramble. Got to get going. Will try not to write so much next time. As you may can tell, I feel passionate about this subject. But could never argue with BrookeButler (debate is all).

Jolie

I got divorced 4 years ago. It hurt not because of my ex, but because of my 3 boys. I was 51 at the time. After going through a really rough year, my boys and I came out fine (one has even been living with me this year-graduated H.S. with a 4.0 and is headed for UGA!). Anyway, as a celebration for me, I got a tat of an eagle (free and strong!) with my boys initials in the tat. Meant a lot to all of us!