also another concept for ink has, um, Announced Itself

[kaberett]

so I was talking to the boything the other day about how I am very definite that I want who only by moving can balance/only by balancing move as soon as I work out who to commission to do the lettering for me, and I'm very certain I want it on my bicep, and he was being a bit baffled about this until I explained that the reason to have it on my arm is wheelchair user. (And also erstwhile pianist/harpsichordist, but hey.)

Which got him to talking about wheels as symbology. And, whoops, now I apparently want the outline of a circle (medium-thick, dark ink; cannot decide just yet whether black or v dark blue) about the size of a 2p piece, on my spine just below the nape of my neck/shoulders. Because: wheels and movement and the Moon and choices and decision-making and going in circles (every five years or so/I look back on my life/and I have a good laugh) and a reminder to not try carrying the world on my shoulders.

This is sufficiently straightforward that I might in fact get it for my birthday (in that I don't have to worry about lettering etc). Because it is a thing that Feels Right, and is absolutely a thing about which I'll keep inventing more symbology as I go along.

Comments

[dreamfracture.insanejournal.com]

For me, the wheel will always be "Quisquis amat taliter volvitur in rota".

[merrythebard]

Oh, that sounds wonderful. So much approval. :-)

[davidgillon]

You realise that who only by moving can balance/only by balancing move is going to be absolutely amazing in combination with a wheelie?!?

[kaberett]

yep. :-)

[alexseanchai]

+1

[davidgillon]

(And just for clarity, as I've realised there are two ways of reading that sentence, that's wheelie as in 'pop a ...', rather than 'being a ...')

[cadenzamuse]

+ another :D

[ghoti]

what kind of font are you looking for? (mainly just being curious, not, like, offering to do it)

[kaberett]

I've kept dithering backwards and forwards - for a while I thought maybe I wanted something very swoopy for one line, and very classic-typewriter for the second - but actually I think that on reflection I want it all sort of very swirly and classical and italic, because of grace and movement in the text as well as, well, in the text.

[ghoti]

ooh, *nice*. <3

[alexseanchai]

Sounds excellent!

I keep thinking I want ink but there is so MUCH to say and I do not want MUCH ink so I have delayed the decision of what ink till celebration of out-of-indebtedness.

[milkymoon]

I really like this idea - permanent personal symbology, there to serve as a reminder. ♥

Where there's a wheel, there's a way

[hairyears]

What sort of wheel did you have in mind?

For some reason, I thought of the scattered and falling gears of a watch, frozen in time: an image from Watchmen.

[silverhare]

So many tattoo ideas, so little time. <3 Love hearing about other people's tattoo ideas, always.

[danohu]

[looks up the poem]

Wow, that is beautiful. Lately I seem to have been discovering a lot of wonderful things through your enthusiasm for them. Thanks!

[kaberett]

I love absolutely everything Donaghy's ever written; a recent post extolling his virtue (with excerpts); his complete collected works (alas he died at an infuriatingly young age :-/) are available relatively cheaply and I highly recommend them.

I am so so glad that my enthusiasm brings joy. <3