written on the body

[metaphortunate]

Got the weirdest wave of nostalgia today for that summer that I spent so much time smudging my charcoal drawings that I rubbed my fingerprints off.

In grad school my hands were all covered in burns from hot glue guns. Now I have paper cuts from assembling drawing sets, RSI from mousing, and a chronically strained thumb from picking up a 26-lb baby a million times a day. Not to mention the belly overhang from having the baby. It's not a huge belly, I just have like a small cantilevered overhang for my junk now. Maybe I'll stick a decorative urn in my navel and call it a pediment.

It's just strange how life writes its history on your body.

Comments

[copracat]

I like my scars. I like their stories.

[laurashapiro]

I love you, and your cantilevered overhang, quite a lot.

I vote for the decorative urn!

[metaphortunate]

Yay! :)

[wordweaverlynn]

What laurashapiro said.