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new ink

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

St. Catharines, 2010.11.27

I got a new tattoo, today. First in some ten years! I barely managed to squeeze in a tattoo during my thirties.

Is it odd to miss the sensation of the needle doing its thing?

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud