Hands and a Tattoo with meaning

My son and I both got a semicolon tattoo yesterday. It is my first tattoo ever. This one is very meaningful to me. Here's why:

Project Semicolon was born from a social media movement in 2013. They describe themselves as a "movement dedicated to presenting hope and love to those who are struggling with depression, suicide, addiction, and self-injury. Project Semicolon exists to encourage, love, and inspire."

This represents that your story is not over

So many people feel that no one understands. I want people to know if they see this on my wrist I will listen and direct them to help. I'm grateful that people were there for me when I needed it.

I cropped this picture for Facebook to just show the tattoos. I don't think my hands are very nice to look at. I always wanted pretty feminine hands with log fingers. But that just isn't reality. I have hands that were made to work. And work I did for years.

These hands have raised four children, colored Easter eggs with a grandson, delivered baby pigs, milked goats, typed thousands of e-mails and done innumerable dishes.  Ha ha!

I realized a few years ago that my hands looked exactly like my mothers. I don't mean similar I mean exactly. I don't know exactly how I feel about that but that's a post for a different day.