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Here. Welcome.
Welcome. Welcome.
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
This is another edition of the Write.
Right. Rite and your man Jason Reynolds.
Now as some of you know and some of you
may not know, I'm covered in tattoos.
You can see some of them up here.
I've got them all over the place.
And you can see I've got some
right there on my fingers.
They're everywhere.
What I want you all to do today
is think about a special tattoo.
If you -- now I know some of you are already --
your parents are probably like
oh, no, Jason but this is good.
If you could make up your own tattoo
and you could put it anywhere
on your body, what would it be?
Where would it go?
But the most important part
is what's the story behind it?
You know, all the tattoos that I have on me,
they all have different stories
attached to them.
You know, look at that.
They all have different stories and different
meanings and they come from different places
and different inspirations and are really
just tracking different moments in my life.
And so what I really want you to think
about is if you could come up with a tattoo,
where you would put it, what it was
look like, what are the colors in it,
but most importantly what's the back story
that led you to getting that particular tattoo?
Why does that tattoo matter to you,
matter enough for you to put it
on your body for the rest of your life?
What do you want to live with you
and on you forever and ever and ever?
What is that special and that important
that you could see yourself
making that kind of commitment?
Think about it.
Parents don't be mad.
Teachers don't be mad but it'd be cool.
Right. Think it over.
Let me know how it goes, and
I'll see you all in the next one.
All right.
Oh, and by the way, tell your uncle that
joke he played on me last week, not funny.
Peace.