tattoos

Some days feel like the beginning of something. Some feel like the end. Sometimes, I just feel like I am preparing for something that I can't possibly know. If I got a tattoo it would be of a black bird on my shoulder, flying, with a white heart. This is from Carlos Castaneda who wrote about his visions with 'don juan', and how death is your lifelong companion on your left hand side, coming closer sometimes, sometimes at a distance. And because of Hamlet "The readiness is all." The white heart would be to remind me to keep a light heart. I have my dark days, but am learning to keep a light heart. I guess I don't really know what this blog site thing is supposed to be. But until I do, it seems I won't announce it to my friends. Just use it to speak when there are no friends. I probably won't ever get that tattoo. "Not a whit. We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, tis not to come, If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yea it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is't to leave betimes?"