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Today is "To Write Love On Her Arms" Day.

For those of you that don't know what TWLOHA's is...

www.twloha.com

Today is basically about writing the word love on your arm. Writing it to promote awareness about things such as self injury, addiction, depression, and suicide - specifically within the teenage years. (As I think this is where it is most often not taken very lightly. - you know, hormones.) But also acknowledging that these are things people won't grow out of. That people much older than their teens suffer. They fight these things ever single day.

So writing love on your arm not only promotes awareness and conversation about difficult subjects. It's also there as a sign of support. A sign that someone cares about you when depression, addiction, self injury, and thoughts of suicide make it so difficult to believe that could be true.

Love is the movement.
Rescue is possible.

You are never alone.
  • Mood: Love Dazed
  • Listening to: Rise Against
  • Eating: Breakfast
  • Drinking: Water
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:iconlauratringaliholmes:
A wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing it.
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:iconwordsaremyweakness:
~WordsAreMyWeakness Nov 17, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
My pleasure.
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:iconewa5:
~Ewa5 Nov 14, 2009  Professional Photographer
I think that day should be more than once a year , like 4 times a year
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:iconwordsaremyweakness:
~WordsAreMyWeakness Nov 14, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
I'm pretty sure that since TWLOHA's isn't the the one who put the day in motion - it just sort of happened. That it does actually occur more than once a year.

I remember doing one in Feb. last year. Actually... here - Feb. 13th, the day before Valentines.

I put this up. [link]

That's how I remembered. So I think it does randomly occur through out the year.
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:iconewa5:
~Ewa5 Nov 14, 2009  Professional Photographer
Ahh! That is good to hear! And i think that would make a great start for a tattoo :D
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:iconwordsaremyweakness:
~WordsAreMyWeakness Nov 15, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
<3 Ha. Thanks.

I'm hoping... eventually.

But it might be tricky, as I would very much like to be a high school art teacher.

Long sleeves forever?
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:iconewa5:
~Ewa5 Nov 15, 2009  Professional Photographer
haha! That would work.. although , at my high school we had a teacher (female) that had a ton of tattoos and they didnt make her cover them up :)
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:iconwordsaremyweakness:
~WordsAreMyWeakness Nov 16, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
Wow... maybe you're in a more liberal area than I am?

Maybe I should move before getting a job. <3
hehe
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:iconewa5:
~Ewa5 Nov 16, 2009  Professional Photographer
haha! Actually , I think it was because of the type of school. It was a charter school , and they are more lenient on everything :D
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:iconwordsaremyweakness:
~WordsAreMyWeakness Nov 16, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
Nice...

Note to self - look at charter schools. <3
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