Today Was a Good Day

I had been considering getting this tattoo for quite some time now. The original idea was to have the tattoo wrap around my bicep in a single line but the tattoo artist informed me that it would neither look good (as the different contours around the human bicep would warp the letter such that they would no longer be uniformly sized) nor be exactly as I imagined. They were very patient and kind in explaining the best match to what I wanted and this was the result. I'm very pleased!

This is not a tattoo I intend to display (it is easily covered by short-sleeved shirts) and it's really a mantra for myself, a self-enchantment as it were. I'm not revealing the meaning to anyone who cannot read it for themselves unless they are members of my immediate family or my best friends.

Afterwards, we went to a local festival with lots of art and cuisine. I met the Goddess within human form! A statue of a Water Goddess, found within an oasis in the middle of the city (they literally created an oasis amongst the concrete with real-grass "mats", flowers, and a water fountain in which she stood), had come alive to gift the people with water. Check it out, it's only five minutes long (watch in full screen):