Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Dionysus

 Danny is a young Starbucks barista.  His parents emigrated to the USA from Albania while his mother was pregnant with him.  He was born here and given the Albanian name Dionysus.  

The name Dionysus is derived from Dionysius, the Greek god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.  (A very busy god.)  Danny has a wonderful tattoo of Dionysus on his forearm.  He got it when he was visiting Albania.

And on the other side of Danny's arm, a wonderful tattoo of Atlas with the weight of the world on his shoulders. 

Blogger is still not letting me post photos.  Today's post and a couple more were prepared before this photo uploading problem arose.  I am still trying to figure it out.  If unsuccessful, the blog will go dark again.

2 comments:

Stefan Jansson said...

Very impressive tattoo. Sorry to hear about your blogger issue.

Taken For Granted said...

Those are amazing tattoos. Hope your blog issues get solved soon. I will miss your posts if your blog goes dark.