I've clearly been having a bit of a body-modification thing these past few months. And so I thought it might be fun to do a roundup of all the tattoos, mostly because I love hearing the stories behind other people's (tell me yours, tell me yours!).
I don't know why I've never talked about most of my tattoos before - but I started thinking about this tonight, and I suspect the reason is that every time I start to write about them I get stuck. Not because I'm nervous to share my reasons for getting each one - I may not agree with those reasons anymore, but I'm a firm believer that the point of tattoos is not to be totally, all-in certain that THIS IS THE ONE, FOREVER, but rather to mark moments in time that meant something to you (and that's something you can never be sorry for doing). No, I think I've never talked much about them because some are easy to explain, but others? I'm not confident that I can convey why I chose to put those marks on my body. Not well enough, anyway. And I don't want to render them trite, because to me they're not.
That's why art exists, after all: sometimes words just aren't enough.