My Tattoos:
Right cheek: Chinese symbol approximating “courage”
Left cheek: Chinese symbol approximating “humility”
NECK:
Middle: Middle: SFTU: “Seek, first, to understand” (plenty have thought this to signify “shut fuck the up”)
Middle: tribal-looking design, signifying that people seem separate from a distance, connected when closer, distinct when close enough.
Right: Persian acronym approximating, “This, too, shall pass.”
Let: Another, different Persian acronym also meaning, “This, too, shall pass.”
CHEST:
“Know your enemy”
MEANING: ‘Tis good advice 
ABDOMEN:
“The Perils of Obedience”
MEANING: It is the title of the published research (abridged version) concerning the Milgram experiment.
*If you are unfamiliar with the experiment, and would like to know about it, you can see some of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C5Y8xG1l6A
***If you are unfamiliar with the published research, “The Perils of Obedience”, and would like to read it, you can do so here:
http://russlindquist.info/literature/stanley_milgram.php
DAN TIAN:
[Yin Yang]
MEANING: Symbol for balance at what I (and others) consider as the physical center of a human body.
WRISTS:
Left: question-mark (green, for my baby, Aiden)
Right: question-mark (purple, for my baby, Athena)
each question-mark has, for the ‘dot’ a ying yang symbol. Left hand points to you; right hand points to me.
MEANING: question-marks mean choices; and now, whenever I look at my hands, I am reminded of three things 1. my son, 2. my daughter (two of my five, and the only two for whom I was able to provide for any significant length of time) 3. that I should seek, in every choice that I make, to choose that which will bring my kids back to me, while seeking principled equilibrium for both myself as well as those around me.
BACK OF NECK:
“Fundatio pro vita est vicis”
BELOW THAT:
*An hourglass (life)
-filled with a rainbow (the variety of the world)
-contained, in its top-space, an infinity sign (symbolizing life’s infinite possible choices)
-contained, in its bottom-space, an infinity sign (symbolizing life’s infinite possible consequences)
SHOULDERS:
Each has the symbol for infinity.
Left is blue, for my baby, Aiden.
Right is pink, for my baby, Athena.
The infinity is placed on the shoulder, because so much ‘potential’ begins in the shoulders.
The colors are my kids’ respective favorites, (though favorites only via social-indoctrination, sadly).
