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i am: 40...a capricorn / moon in pisces / libra rising...an old soul with a young spirit...older than i look...contemplating my 3rd tattoo...NOT a web designer...a lesbian...working things out with the g.f....a native iowan...a graduate of cornell college and ohio state...a critical reader and thinker...really rather shy...agnostic...an ardent feminist...a bleeding-heart liberal...a pacifist...and so not your average white grrl...
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feeling generous? *grin*
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June 20, 2002
tattoomorrowwell, this post started as a reply in the "comments" section for yesterday, and then i just kept going and going (as i'm oft wont to do)...so voila! it's now a bonafide post.
if you read #5 from yesterday, you know that i'm getting a tattoo tomorrow. and yes, i'm scared (and obviously haven't qualm the first about admitting it). i'm starting small (i accept the fact that i'm a PUNK and i have yet to see how well i deal with the pain)...so while i'm not totally certain yet (hey, i still have 25 hours to decide), the current plan is for the adinkra symbol dwennimmen, which means strength and humility. then, if i'm less of a punk than i anticipate, i may add 2 more adinkra symbols: sankofa (learn from your mistakes) and hye won hye (forgiveness/endurance). if i do all 3, they'll be stacked on the inside of my calf. but...i'm also still fairly seriously considering the feminist symbol that's a chunky woman's sign with a fist inside it. so...we'll see.
i admit to some hesitation about the adinkra symbols, because i’m not sure it’s entirely cool to appropriate another culture (i.e., a culture that’s not mine) like that. they’re beautiful…and they have individual meanings for me, personally…and i’ve at least done some reading about the culture, and how the symbols have been/are used…so maybe that makes it okay. or maybe i’m merely justifying it to suit my own purposes…i don’t know. *sigh* i suppose it’s no worse than non-japanese people with no connection to japanese culture (beyond a predilection for sushi) having all kindsa stuff tattooed in japanese…but i’m still not entirely comfortable with it.
i have so many ideas in my head that i really probably need several tattoos. i’ve also thought about (among others):
1) the statue of the little mermaid (no, not the disney character), the national symbol of denmark. i’m half danish (my mother’s parents came from there to the u.s. in the early 1900s), and proud of it, as denmark is quite progressive. hey, the capitol city boasts about gay copenhagen on its official tourist site!
2) some capricorn-related thing. unfortunately, the glyph/symbol is kinda boring...and the other representation is a goat!!
3) some kinda cool artistic interpretation of a double woman's sign (for obvious reasons).
this time tomorrow, i'll need to have made a final decision. right now...it's all still up in the air.
3:58 PM
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