August 9, 2002
What we are called is what identifies us. Names. On Blog Sisters, a couple of lengthy posts about names -- about decisions to hyphenate married names – or not; to take the husband’s name – or not. What we call ourselves is important. Our name identify us, calls up an impression or image in the mind of someone hearing or seeing our name.
I posted before about b!X. When my daughter was little, we called her Missy. When she was in college, she informed us that she wanted to be called Melissa. It was important to her. It was a statement of her adult identity. When she married, she chose to take her husband’s last name. Her choice. Her reasons. It was important to her. When I got divorced, I kept my husband’s last name because I wanted to keep the same last name as my children. Even after they were grown, I kept the name because by then that’s how I was known professionally. I didn’t want to confuse my public identity.
I never liked the name Elaine. My mother named me after the daughter of a friend of hers, and I never liked the girl very much. There are other Elaines who show up on Daypop. So, I think from now on, in blog Comments and other places in this community, I’m going to identify myself as Elaine of Kalilily. I noticed that some bloggers do that already, and I like that. It gives me a more specific identity. Elaine of Kalilily. Yes, I like that. It sounds important.
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dave rogers on 09 Aug 2002
It's not bad for a start, Elaine of Kalilily, but I think you could do better. Something, say, like this?
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
Now, that sounds important!
;^)
Elaine of Kalilily on 09 Aug 2002
Maybe I like it because it sounds "Crone-y." I guess we all define "important" very personally.
Annie on 13 Aug 2002
I like it, like the place names of other times that identified a person enough to make them unique in the village and surrounding area, like my grandmother, The Little Blue Haired Lady In the Yellow HOuse Who Walks Around the Block Every Morning At 6. Everyone knows who she is. I have been know for the last 16 years as Amelia's Mom, such a Patient Woman. I sign her school papers that way, Amelia's Mom.
So, Elaine of Kalilly, thou art so named and recognized, go forth in grace and glory thou honourable woman. So says Amelia's Mom.
dzwonki polifoniczne nokia on 14 Jun 2004
Hmmmmm interesting !!!