My father is coming to visit this weekend and I think I have finally decided something I have thought on for several years.
I've shared some of my history here before, but, as part of that, my father obtained a small prison tattoo on his left wrist. It's very simple, crude, and mono color of what is now kind of green. It's a cross with rays coming off it, similar to this:
But "prison"
I remember as a kid getting to see him after a few months and my parents trying to act like every was OK, while hiding a divorce, and knowing something was different, because of that tattoo.
My father wasn't really part of my life in my late teens, 20s, or early 30s but has really tried the last few years to be part of my life and really to be part of my daughters life.
I'll be taking him to the parlor this weekend to have that cross placed on me, likely my left peck, as a reminder of where I came from as someday his will be gone.