gifted

December 30 – Gift Prompt: Gift. This month, gifts and gift-giving can seem inescapable. What’s the most memorable gift, tangible or emotional, you received this year? (Author: Holly Root)   

2010 offered me the gift of clarity and with that, the ability to look the cold hard truth in the face without shying away.

This year I've learned some hard truths. Truths about myself that were painful to face; issues that I've been skirting for years and finally, was unable to avoid. 

All the tears I've cried this year has washed away the fog and bullshit, affording a clarity of spirit that I paid dearly for, without regrets.

2010 has been one hell of a year and I'm ready to say adieu. Armed with my word for the new year, I'm looking forward with a new found clarity and wisdom that I don't take for granted.

memorialized

polaroid 680/600 film.

In one of our many, intense conversations over the last week, I was telling my sister about what I wanted to do with my belt line tattoo and that I was still stuck on how to finish my left hip.

"What about a memorial tattoo for me?"

After the kick-in-the-gut feeling subsided, (I hate talking about 'after'), I quietly asked,

"What if I get your octopus tattooed onto my left hip so you're always at my side?"

After we cried, we agreed that it would be perfect.