whoop

I have a date with the very talented Miss Brooke Thompson this week to talk tattooz. I have in mind my right forearm (to fall into symmetry with my left) or shoulder blade. Maybe the center of the back for a spinal thrill.

I want to do something very simple this time, with whooping cranes. I'm still deciding between one crane, mirrored, like the sparrows on my wrist (since everyone asks, it is a symbol for self-reflective thought), or a pair of cranes. The image I've been fumbling with is a beautiful photograph of a crane with its beak to the sky, with another descending towards its tail. There is something so open and bellowing about it, as if to say, "Here I am! Look at me now!". Here is a somewhat accurate example, but I want mine to be in black outline like all the others: