Well, what a beautiful Sunday. It is Palm Sunday 2007 and I even got up really early to go to church this morning. As it turns out I made the best choice to do just that. Although, today's service was a little extra long... I always get a thrill from the reading of "The Passion of Christ"...and we sang one of my favorite Hymns..."Were You There". Sometimes I cannot help but shed tear thru some of these songs because they really move me. This particular Sunday's service always moves me to do something.
Today it moved me to get a Tattoo...well not actually but I did get a Tattoo. I have been talking with a few friends @ work and several of us decided to all get tattoos. We each had one reason or another for doing it and it just seemed like something to do. If we had to do it individually we probably would not consider it but there is something different when a group chooses to do something together. We actually decided last Thursday to go to the Tattoo Parlor (Purgatory Tattoo in Independence) and just go for it. Well, as in all things time is of an essence and let me tell you there was a stream of people coming and going...on a Thursday evening, no less. We all got there around 5:30 after work and there was a wait...Some of us already had designs in mind others had to search the books. At any rate, time got the best of us and all of us could not get Tattooed all at once. Soooo...those of us left met today, Palm Sunday to get the work done.
I have been thinking of a tattoo since my Father died back in 1993 when I was 27. Then again when I was thirty, and I was bound and determined to make my 40th the year...well I'm not sure why...but I didn't. Today made up for all of that. Obviously, this is not an art form for everyone and some artwork is more tasteful than others but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I beheld a Scorpion. This is the Zodiac sign for my birth month and something I have always considered. The Artist who drew and inked mine is I believe..just that, an Artist. Most of these guys and gals have a natural talent for design and although there is no Culinary Academy to teach this fine art. They learn thru doing...an apprenticeship if you will, and I appreciate the talent it takes. I am really amazed at the beauty of the detail work done by Jason (whom I would recommend...if you are considering). He did 3 or 4 of us and we are all pleased with his work. Again, Thanks Jason...
As I said, I truly was going to get this done at my milestone birthday but didn't and since we were all talking about it @ work, I thought why wait....and I am more than glad that I got this tattoo. It didn't really hurt, I got the tat on my ankle, and the color is of course, blue. I will now have a better memory of this event because I did something with a group of friends. and had some laughs and good times thru our shared experience. After all, and this is the moral of my story....this is or at the very least should be what our lives are about. Our lifes' are the sum of our experiences and those that are shared are all the more sweeter. I am sure this is a quote by someone else more famous or profound than I. I would quote them if I knew who it was because it sounds like a great thing to say and if I am the one who said it to begin with then perhaps 100 years from now I'll be in a book of famous quotes, Yea!!!. Or does it sound familiar because that is just what life should be about and its a part of all of us, our experiences shared....
Today it moved me to get a Tattoo...well not actually but I did get a Tattoo. I have been talking with a few friends @ work and several of us decided to all get tattoos. We each had one reason or another for doing it and it just seemed like something to do. If we had to do it individually we probably would not consider it but there is something different when a group chooses to do something together. We actually decided last Thursday to go to the Tattoo Parlor (Purgatory Tattoo in Independence) and just go for it. Well, as in all things time is of an essence and let me tell you there was a stream of people coming and going...on a Thursday evening, no less. We all got there around 5:30 after work and there was a wait...Some of us already had designs in mind others had to search the books. At any rate, time got the best of us and all of us could not get Tattooed all at once. Soooo...those of us left met today, Palm Sunday to get the work done.
I have been thinking of a tattoo since my Father died back in 1993 when I was 27. Then again when I was thirty, and I was bound and determined to make my 40th the year...well I'm not sure why...but I didn't. Today made up for all of that. Obviously, this is not an art form for everyone and some artwork is more tasteful than others but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I beheld a Scorpion. This is the Zodiac sign for my birth month and something I have always considered. The Artist who drew and inked mine is I believe..just that, an Artist. Most of these guys and gals have a natural talent for design and although there is no Culinary Academy to teach this fine art. They learn thru doing...an apprenticeship if you will, and I appreciate the talent it takes. I am really amazed at the beauty of the detail work done by Jason (whom I would recommend...if you are considering). He did 3 or 4 of us and we are all pleased with his work. Again, Thanks Jason...
As I said, I truly was going to get this done at my milestone birthday but didn't and since we were all talking about it @ work, I thought why wait....and I am more than glad that I got this tattoo. It didn't really hurt, I got the tat on my ankle, and the color is of course, blue. I will now have a better memory of this event because I did something with a group of friends. and had some laughs and good times thru our shared experience. After all, and this is the moral of my story....this is or at the very least should be what our lives are about. Our lifes' are the sum of our experiences and those that are shared are all the more sweeter. I am sure this is a quote by someone else more famous or profound than I. I would quote them if I knew who it was because it sounds like a great thing to say and if I am the one who said it to begin with then perhaps 100 years from now I'll be in a book of famous quotes, Yea!!!. Or does it sound familiar because that is just what life should be about and its a part of all of us, our experiences shared....
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