MADNESS AND LOGIC

Scheduling

I just recently finished booking the month of August. Since I don’t like being booked out so far, I have stopped taking new appointments. If you’d like to get tattooed in the fall, I can put you on a call list, and I will start scheduling those again late summer. If I’ve already started a project on you and we need to finish, you’ll have priority, and we’ll get you squared away first.

To be put on the call list, either call the studio (267) 239-2724 or email tim@timpangburn.com with your name, phone number, email address, and a description of what you want. If it’s a cover up, please include pictures of your current tattoo in your email. Please don’t send any messages on Facebook, they only get lost and I don’t check them.

If you don’t want to wait until fall, then check out the shop! We have a full staff of awesome tattoo artists who have availability. Check everyone’s portfolio on our Facebook page http://facebook.com/artmachineproductions

I want to thank everyone for being patient with me, and thank you so much for the support with what I do. I truly appreciate it.

The sum of your achievements

So today I was running in my treadmill. I’ve been off kilter with my workouts lately, so I was really getting it in to try to kick start things back to how they were. When I get in a good run, I don’t run a steady pace. I speed it up, slow it down. I walk, jog, and full on sprint. It’s good to keep your body guessing.

So there I was, in the midst of one of my walking moments, staring blankly across my living room, jammin out on some Alexisonfire. And suddenly I had an epiphany. This is my life. Now I know how that sounds. Of course this is my life. Who else’s would it be? But for some reason this struck me on a deeper level. Out of the multitude of choices I could have made, and the choices that spawned out of each choice, I happened to make just the proper arrangement of decisions that landed me on a treadmill in Fishtown trying to get in shape.

Everyone who knows me knows my borderline obsession with the ideas of fate, free will, predetermined destiny, and the effects of human thought on reality. But today. Oh, today. I had an enlightened moment. I saw that everything is perfect. I have made entirely the right choices, even if I ever doubted what I was doing. We are all perfect. We are where we need to be, and every bit of suffering and turmoil is simply part of our growth to achieve our potential.

Or maybe I was a little delirious from pushing almost 4 miles. Either way, know that you are beautiful in all you do. If you try your best not to hurt others, and take responsibility for yourself, then you will understand that the path can be difficult, but it will always put you where you’re meant to be. Take solace in that.

Like Winston Churchill said, “when you’re going through hell, keep going.” Or in the shortened version that my father’s teacher uses, “keep going.” there is peace an joy for any who seek it.