Melissa's Afterglow

I took a little break here at Tattoosday over the long weekend and I hope that you didn't miss us too much!<br /><br />Today's tattoo is one of the simpler ones, but I think it is also spectacularly original.<br /><br />A couple weeks back, I ran into Melissa at a Dunkin' Donuts and she offered up this intriguing piece:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4LNQRo-3hgQ9Jueicd0thspTveh_8-sZoPuZQrD_hyphenhyphenlqizard-qUAGeqev-hnIGKyNfDNcnu02rryVkh5uEf93TGCW2b1myDwCyA5sW7ffwwnBmgzaR_pbslPecf3WhKB4Enlvd6YBxw/s1600/afterglow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4LNQRo-3hgQ9Jueicd0thspTveh_8-sZoPuZQrD_hyphenhyphenlqizard-qUAGeqev-hnIGKyNfDNcnu02rryVkh5uEf93TGCW2b1myDwCyA5sW7ffwwnBmgzaR_pbslPecf3WhKB4Enlvd6YBxw/s400/afterglow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Melissa explained:<br /><blockquote><br />"It's just an abstract representation of my [home]. So instead of having pictures of my family or the family shield, it's an outline of a house I grew up in, the tree and the yard - it just represents my family."</blockquote>As for the word "afterglow," Melissa explained that her dad had passed away a couple of years ago and there was a poem on the back of his mass card and that it is in memory of him. The poem in question is likely this one: <br /><blockquote><h3>After Glow</h3><em></em>I'd like the memory of me<br />to be a happy one,<br />I'd like to leave an afterglow<br />of smiles when life is done.<br />I'd like to leave and echo<br />whispering down the ways,<br />Of happy times and laughing<br />times and bright and sunny days.<br />I'd like the tears of those who<br />grieve, to dry before the sun<br />Of happy memories that I leave<br />When life is done.<br /><em>                             ------ Author Unknown</em></blockquote>Thanks to Melissa for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>

Melissa's Afterglow

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