@ericvancewalton, I'm glad to hear your creativity and ideas. Your first tattoo was Lord Buddha piece. Buddha is my religious leader as you know. I appreciate you follow Buddhism and your joyful feelings. I'll check it out more about your past tattoo history.
This time you taken amazing and deeply meaningful tattoo design. It's really awesome to see. Life is too short yep..agreed and we take care of our life and gives good and creative things to it. Nice you decided to shared your experience. Stay Blessed.