My Grandmother's Tattoo
In May of 2009 my family and I decided that we wanted to do something to join us all together, even though we now lived all over the world in places like Amsterdam, London, Washington, and RI and MA too. So my sisters and our mother decided a tattoo was something we could all have, that would be a kind of joining of our family.
My sister designed an anchor, and although you might consider that we are all originally from Newport RI and the anchor is a symbol of The Ocean State, to us it meant much more than that. It was the weight of the anchor that spoke to us; the symbol of being held in one place together that came through the tattoo.
We each chose a different part of our body and Grandma sat that round out. She came from a time when girls wore gloves to school and didn't dare even wear make-up, so a tattoo was not on her list. When she saw the attention and time that the Inflicting Ink Tattoo artists took in making sure that the design was what we wanted, and that each tattoo was perfect, and how the anchor looked on all of us together, she decided that she wanted one too.
At first we didn't believe her. She's 80 after all, and we thought she was joking. Then she took out a gold necklace that my grandfather had given her, and it was of an anchor. Her's is a little bit different than ours because it is modeled after the necklace. The meaning is still the same though. It wasn't getting the tattoo that was important, it was the meaning behind it that we are, always have been, and always will be, a family.
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