Did you know what Co-Founder had a Tattoo

[caressa]

About Dr. Bob's tattoo(s) ....


A tattoo he wore the rest of his life was probably from those days at Dartmouth: a dragon and a compass tattoo. The dragon wound around his left arm from the shoulder to the wrist. It was blue with red fire. His son thinks "he had to have been drunk to have it put there, and you didn't do something that complicated in a day. When I asked him how he got it, he said, 'Boy, that was a dandy!' And it must have been, too."

Source: silkworth.net/aabiography/roberthsmith.html


Do we really believe that A.A. Comes of Age, As Bill Sees It, Pass
It On, and Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers ought to be
ignored? Where else can we learn, for example, that
Dr. Bob was "gloriously tattooed" with curious figures, including
snakes? [Page 298, Good Oldtimers] Do you need
to know this? Well, did you ever sponsor a tattooed (and
very angry) biker? Enough said!

Source: www.aa.org/en_pdfs/f-151_markings_summer07.pdf

[majestyjo]

Always said I was going to get one. I wanted a butterfly but it didn't happen. I always figured it would be limited on my flat a$$ and it wouldn't be easy for it to take flight.

I use to go to a biker group. It was a big part of my early recovery. You spoke the truth, if you didn't, you got called on it. It was their truth, not always mine.

[majestyjo]

Saw some recovery tattoos tonight. They have special meaning.