I have wanted to get a tattoo for a long time, and I wanted to make sure it had meaning to me and my life, so I decided a long time ago that if I ever got a tattoo, that at least my first one would be something that I designed myself, because if I am going to beautifully scar my skin for the rest of my life, I wanted it to symbolize a lot of things for me, not just a pretty picture that I pick out of a book. Not to say that there is anything wrong with someone getting their tattoo’s that way, it’s just not the way I want to do it. So I have been gearing myself up to this for years, trying to figure out what I want my art to say for me and about me. On Saturday night I finally started to put some real work into my design. I have dabbled at it for years now, but I now have a concrete idea in my head of where I want my tattoo and what I want it to be and mean. I want to incorporate a lot of aspects of my life, while paying tribute to some of my passions. In this spirit I have decided that I am going to have a latin phrase incorporated into the design. “amor est infinitus” is my current choice, meaning love is infinite. I like this phrase because of part of the design in the tattoo is about love, and also because of my beautiful son. My second tattoo, after this one, will be my son’s name on my ankle, but until then I wanted to do this. It’s something I truly believe, and my son and my best friend have helped me to feel that love truly is infinite, and I want to pay tribute to the knowledge they have brought into my life.