Fine line black script tattoo reading La vita è bella across the collarbone and upper chest.

La vita è bella script across the collarbone

Fine line · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo is the Italian phrase La vita è bella, written in a flowing black script across the collarbone. The linework is thin and even, filled with solid black ink and with no visible shading. Warm skin and a grey knit top fill the frame, with the tattoo placed centrally on the upper chest.

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Dear Matteo,

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The snow came down the Passo del Corvo on Tuesday, two days early, and the mule Bepi refused the bridge until Franco fed him a carrot the size of my forearm. I am telling you this because you asked in your last letter whether anything happens up here anymore. Nothing happens, caro, and I have decided that is the happiness of it. The bread still rises. The priest still cannot hold a note.

Your grandfather's cap is on the hook by the stove where it has hung since March. I have not moved it. Yesterday I found the carpenter's pencil you used to mark the fence posts, bitten flat at one end, in the drawer with the string. I sat with it a long time. Then I went out and looked at the valley, which was filled with cloud like milk poured into a bowl, and I said aloud the thing he always said when the weather turned foul: la vita è bella. Signora Ruggeri from the lower farm heard me through the gate and laughed so hard she had to hold on to the post.

Do not come home for the feast if the roads are bad. I mean it. Stay in your English city where the trains run on time and the lamps stay lit. Write to me about the big wheel by the river and the fog that sits on the rooftops in the mornings, and tell me whether the people there say what they mean.

Your loving nonna, Teresa

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