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This picture was taken right after the tattoo was done. I’d been planning this concept for about 5 years. The cardinal and lilacs are in memory of my grand parents who had a lilac tree in their back yard and my grandpa would always point out cardinals, or birds in particular. The cardinal also represents youth and learning. While the lilac tree represents life. The crow flying away symbolizes intelligence and wisdom. Flying away from the tree (“life”) symbolizes passing on all that knowledge to the people that you’re leaving behind. Also, by pure awesome coincidence Alexisonfire just happens to be my favourite band and has been for a long time, so the Old Crows/Young Cardinals theme is coincidentally an unintentional tribute to them as well.
Basically every day I look at this tattoo I love it more and more.
Done By Colin Higgins at Berlin Tattoo in Kitchener, Ontario.
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- Artist: Styles P
- TrackName: Children (Ft. Pharoahe Monch)
- Album: Master Of Ceremonies
Styles P ft. Pharoahe Monch | Children
QUESTION OF THE DAY
What is the difference between regret and remorse?
Regret describes emotions ranging from being disappointed to intense sorrow due mainly to an external circumstance or event. An example is: She regrets that the television show has been canceled. One can also regret a wrong done, as in: He regrets his mistakes. Remorse describes deep regret, involving anguish or guilt and self-reproach or repentance. Remorse is felt by someone for a sin or wrong they have committed. So: He felt remorse for lying to the teacher. Remorse is from the Latin remordere ‘to bite again’ - as remorse is a gnawing feeling of guilt from a past wrong. Regret is from the French regreter/regrater and originally was a synonym for regrate meaning ‘complaint, lament’.
WORD OF THE DAY
endemic
[en-DEM-ik]
Definition: belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place.
-adjective
1. Belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place.
2. Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous.
-noun
1. An endemic disease.
Examples:
1. To avoid the transmission of the parasitic infection malaria, donors who have travelled to endemic areas are deferred.
André Picard, The Gift of Death
2. The interior of this particular police car smells like cigarettes, leather, sweat, and another odor I can’t identify that seems endemic to police cars.
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
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If only you understood…
The “Africans sold Africans into the slave trade, so inhumane treatment of them in the states was justified” argument is one of the stupidest arguments I’ve ever heard.
Got me all types of fucked up with that one.
Take an Ethnic Studies class.
fuckface.
(Source: masterteacher)
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West 36th…
