A Few Scarabs to Share, and Thoughts About Hockey - No Horses Left

Las Vegas won big in last night's hockey game, sending my Colorado Avalanche team back to the mountains without a win. Vegas goes on to the Quarter Finals in the Stanley Cup, and I no longer have any horses in this race. The schedule hasn't been posted yet, but it'll be the Montreal Canadians, Las Vegas Golden Knights, Tampa Bay Lightning and the New York Islanders vying for the Cup. It should be entertaining hockey - there are some good teams playing, and lots of body slamming and fast skating awaits. 

I'm totally in love with this bronze scarab. It's 
ancient - from the Bronze Age, and was found 
buried in an ancient marketplace in Jerusalem. 
It looks as freshly designed as any modern 
graphic, but it actually dates from 3300 to 
1200 BCE (Before Common Era). Really old 
and incredibly beautiful. 

I sent Rodney (my tattoo artist) a long email with a lot of images last night, following up with one more thought that occurred to me early this morning while I was doing my daily meditation. I thought I'd share some of the images I sent to him with you today. The numbers on each of the panels were added by me so that I could easily identify each image for him in my email. 

Of course, I also felt I should include an ancient 
bas relief sculpture from ancient Egypt in the 
grouping of images I sent to him. This one was 
beautifully detailed and in extremely good 
condition. Just stunning. 

I really liked this, although I don't want a color piece and 
I don't like the faceted gem instead of the sun disk. Still, 
it's quite lovely and well done, I liked the gleam on the 
head of the scarab, and the legs were magnificent. 

I also included this, although it was a 
drawing, not a tattoo. There were things 
about the image that I loved, and things 
that I hated, but I also sent it along for 
the text.

The text reads: "Scarab - As you roll the sun from East to West across the sky, promising rebirth with each dawn. As you emerge from waste, discover your wings. And fly away towards your true existence, as your hard shell protects you from harm. Scarab, guide me in the eternal cycles of death and resurrection. As I find my way and my wings and my strength and fly forward. Like the sun rolling across the sky." 

Not the best grammar, and punctuation was a problem with this, but I enjoyed the sentiment, and I enjoyed the image. Anyway, I sent Rod 11 pictures, describing what I liked and didn't like about each one of them. I'm looking for black and shading for 90+% of the image, with a little bit of color in the body of the beetle and in the sun disk it carries. I emailed him an addendum this morning, asking for the sun disk to shade from a red center to a violet rim to honor the Crown chakra, where it will be placed. A bit of "whoo whoo", I know, but hey ... it's MY "whoo whoo" - LOL. 

So, I'm out of here. It's going to be a busy day for a "day off", and I've got yet another scorcher in store. The weather, which was expected to have backed off from our temps, is only getting worse and worse instead, and we're sweltering here. Yesterday we topped 100 degrees F, and for early June, that's almost unheard of. If this is June, I dread what July has in store. Have a wonderful day and I'll be back tomorrow. As always, please be kind and stay safe.