Well thank you. 🙂

Thanks 🙂

The lotus on my foot is probably my favorite tattoo at the moment, though I love all of mine for different reasons. I got it about a month ago now, and I’ve had people tell me it’s the one that represents me the best.

The rose was my first tattoo, and looks the way it does largely because of my friend Kari, who had gotten tattoos before and gave me some good advice while I was talking to the artist. I like the fact that it’s simple, and for the most part when people ask if I’ll ever get it colored in, I say no, though I hadn’t ever thought about adding in anything now that I know a bit more about tattoos….thank you for the suggestion, Matthew!!

Here is a close up of the butterfly

This is right after it was done..

This is it now.

The text is another of my favorites. It’s from the ee cummings poem “i carry your heart” There’s a part that says “and its you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you” Hence the moon. I’d really like to try and incorporate a sun on the other side to balance it out, and find a way of working the whole poem in ink….
I’d had the idea of trying to work a tree out of lines of poetry to go up my back to try and tie together the two I have on my sides, but as of right now it’s only an idea…I’m a writer not an artist lol.

It’s got meaning to me because I was at a time in my life when I realized that compassion was incredibly important, and that there isn’t enough love in the world (if you’ll excuse the hippie sentiment). I think that when we meet people, we love them in some basic form, even if it isn’t the “I want to marry you and have your babies” kind of love. And that’s an important thing to take care of. There was also an important man in my life at the time, and those two lines of the poem were ones we often signed the end of letters with. He’s got a moon tattoo that’s the opposite of mine, to kind of balance it out and go with mine…

Wow, I have such a habit of rambling….Hope you enjoy the explanations if you’re not asleep by the end lol

And apparently didn’t post the pictures like I thought I did…stupid internet…