A healing Tattoo in Singapore
Posted by Doug in Travel at 1:51 pm About two years ago, on August 22, I fell. I was jogging around the block with my dog. Of course, it was dark and the sidewalks where I go jogging were uneven and crumbly from tree roots breaking through the cement. I dislocated my jaw and broke my arm. I ended up with a big, heavy fiberglass cast around my arm. It was a bad summer. I felt damaged and worried that I wouldn’t be able to play the violin anymore. But, the crazy thing in all of this, just a month before my big fall, my older sister who was staying at one of the luxury Singapore business hotels while she was visiting me, had a fall and broke her hip to where she was put on bed rest. I’d been on the phone with her everyday. But, that’s still not the craziest thing. Our cousin, who was vacationing in San Francisco, had a fall a month before my older sister and broke her leg!
The three of us formed a club called the ‘Fallen and the Broken’, and we’d talk to each other daily. We’ve never done that before, talked to each other daily. Our relationships became closer and more intimate. When my cast was removed, there was this huge scar. It was a crooked line with little white points on either side where the stitches were. There was an indentation on the side where a long pin held my bones in place. I started thinking about covering it with a tattoo. I looked over tons of images, and would contemplate on which one would be the best. About a year and a half later, my arm was still sensitive in that area, but that didn’t stop my sister an me from getting a small purple heart. Mine was on my arm just outside the injured area and hers was on her hip.
But, a few months after that, I was getting my hair cut and realized that I had two arms. So, I thought I could tattoo the other arm. I’m really happy with my decision. It’s about intentional healing, about being balanced, about being happy, being alive and being aware of all that I have to be grateful for and I renamed our club ‘The Indelibles’.
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