As I neared my 40th birthday earlier this year, I wanted to mark the occasion and get another tattoo. I really wanted this one to mean something, unlike the ink I got when I was 17 and 21. My first 40 years of life have been pretty incredible and full of experiences both amazing and disturbing, but all of them leading to transformation, growth, transmutation. I love the mythology of the Phoenix burning and being reborn,…
