So. I got a tattoo. Christine actually wrote on my facebook post, "You??" Yeah. Me. I've been thinking about it for six years. I finally decided that if after six years, I still wanted it, maybe it was time. The writing is Dave and Doug's. Taken from notes they wrote me. They always signed their notes the same way. I thought I was doing it in memory of them. To mark the way they are always on my heart. To have a visible reminder. A permanent keepsake, always with me. And while it is that. It is also more. I didn't realize it, until afterwards. It's a marker. A closing of a chapter. Closure, if you will. I don't know how to explain it. The minute it was finished, I knew. I knew something inside me was different. Dave, and to a lesser extent, Doug, have been part of my every thought every day for over 10 years. Daryl saw the Dali Lama this summer. One thing he learned: Interrogate your truth. I've been th...
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