my tattooist has a great sense of humor and likes to make people yell and hop out of the chair when he's working. Funny guy, huh?Seriously, the tattoo hurt as much as i remembered them hurting (it's been almost 10 years since i've gotten new ink) but it was so worth it! i can't wait until the next step down when i get nautical star #2!
5 comments:
“All around this house I see the signs. My daughter looks but she does not see. This is a house that will break into pieces. It's not too late. All my pains, my regrets, I will gather them together. My daughter will hear me calling, even though I've said no words. She will climb the stairs to find me. She will be scared because at first her eyes will see nothing. She will feel in her heart this place where she hides her fears. She will know I am waiting like a tiger in the trees, now ready to leap out and cut her spirit loose.”
“I tell you the story because I was raised the Chinese way. I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, and to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way. Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl, and I was born to my mother and I was born a girl, all of us like stairs, one step after another, going up, going down, but always going the same way. No, this cannot be, this not knowing what you're worth, this not begin with you. My mother not know her worth until too late - too late for her, but not for me. Now we will see if not too late for you, hmm?”
“Losing him does not matter. It is you who will be found--and cherished.”
-The Joy Luck Club
“For a long time now he knew that anything could appear to be something else, and probably was. Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn’t even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katherine Hepburn and your best friend might try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.”
-Song of Solomon
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
-LoTR
"Psychically, it is good to make a halfway place, a way station, a considered place in which to rest and mend after one escapes a famine. It is not too much to take one year, two years, to assess one's wounds, seek guidance, apply the medicines, consider the future. A year or two is scant time. The feral woman is a woman making her way back. She is learning to wake up, pay attention, stop being naïve, uninformed. She takes her life in her own hands. To re-learn the deep feminine instincts, it is vital to see how they were decommissioned to begin with."
When we hear those words, an old, old, memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, abuse, over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer her when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn for her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.
-Women Who Run With The Wolves
August 18, 2007
Life is not always as others would have you believe.
Just wait 'til you try getting your feet tattooed.
THe word 'ow' comes to mind. B^)
My tattoo turned out all crookedy because I was giggling the entire time. Yours has that lovely new tattoo shininess to it that everybody has to lurve.
First time visitor by the way, we have the same color hair! :D
Ohhh pretty hair. And nice collar. And lovely smile.
*** going all fan-girl, how embarrassing ***
:)
Thank You all for your lovely comments. i think i will leave the foot tattoing to the experts! *wink*
**all-girl fan club!** Bring it on! (she fans herself...)
Post a Comment