Pictures

I make no claim that these are good photos by any means. This is merely a photographic documentary of my first week after Forrest's death.

2 Weeks

A lot can happen in two weeks.

• A loss of life to suicide
• 3 bereavement days from work
• One massive hair cut
• A ten hour visit to Florida; arrival time 8:30am, departure time 6:30pm
• Amazing connections with marine wildlife; birds and dolphins and manatees, oh my!
• One upper ear re-piercing, pierced by none other than me. Buddah now resides in my ear; The Buddha Listens.
• The creation of 30 pairs of earrings, called Kelly's Grief Collection
• Another loss of life, this one to old age
• 3 more bereavement days from work
• 30 more earrings; the second line of Kelly's Grief Collection
• The taking up of a new hobby of running (more like jogging/walking/jogging/walking/walking /walking/joggi...no, walking)
• An overnight retreat into the woods at Otter Creek with my boys
• A 20 hour stay in West Virginia
• A brief reconnect with a dear friend from high school
• One amazing Everyone Loves Kelly party (click here for photos) hosted by two even more amazing friends
• A new tattoo

To sum it all up... Loss and Love and a Life with many blessings even though they may be hard to see at times.

A big thanks to my many friends, some new and some not so new, some near and some not so near, who continue to help me stand.

My New Tattoo

Here's a few facts about the symbols in the tattoo:

• The eye in the center is commonly referred to as the Eye of Ra. However, this is the left eye, which is the known as the Eye of Horus or the Eye of Thoth. In Egyptian Mythology, the left eye of Horus was ripped out and torn into pieces by the Storm God, Seth. Thoth, the God of the Wisdom and Magic was able to reassemble the pieces into the full moon. Horus then gave the eye to his murdered father Osiris thereby bringing him back to life. A couple of side notes about Horus: He was the son of Osiris and Isis; the hawk was the personification of Horus; One story tells of his turning into a solar disc with wings; He was associated with the Living King who is sometimes said to embody both the spirit of light (Horus) and the spirit of darkness (Seth), representing the ever present, eternal universal strife.
• The Winged Solar Disc is the symbol of the perfected soul making its flight back to the source of its creation.
• The wings in my design are patterned after those of the turkey vulture. Turkey Vultures represent cleansing and purification.