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Thursday Oct 27, 2005
Every BODY Has A Story - Hobbes
"The first tattoo {fluidity} came from way back in college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania; I lived most of my life in Pittsburgh, and while I was at CMU I would get very, very stoned. I'm imagining that MANY of your stories start out with some sort of drug induced inebriation, and then go into getting the desired tattoo on the high. Well, not this time. The only things that I was high on were caffeine and nicotine: the foods of the gods. Anyway, back to college, I used to write fluidity on my left fore arm when I was stoned. Being a stoner, I thought deeply, and still think deeply today {imagine that !}. I decided that fluidity was a universal term for things that are present in many of the world's religions and belief systems: There is a rhythm to the universe, and those who walk on time within this rhythmn are walking with "God's" grace, that is, in his good graces. So, fluidity is the universal term for walking within this universal rhythm.
The design for this tattoo came from many and many more times when I got stoned; each time that I wrote it, I came up with a new visual theme for it. When I had it put on my arm, I tried to use a compilation of all of the styles; it has bits and pieces of the old and some new features. Guess what I'm saying is that a LOT of thought and emotion has gone into this word and its design.
The second tattoo {Love} is easier to explain, sort of. It's my belief that love is the greatest power in the universe; it is "God's" gift to us to keep us going on: searching for love; spreading love; hoping for love... and it fills all of "God's" creations. This energy is present in Nirvana, in Buddha's heart... "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things... love never dies..." Corrinthians. The design's features are instrumental as much as the word is. The psychic eye in the center of the "O", the dark red colour, the knife-like point to the "V" {love hurts}, the caligraphy-like style of the letters connote the inner beauty and grace if it, and the broken pieces show that love can not be captured or used, and is infinite.
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