Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Am-bee-air

Names are funny kinds of words.  A name for a thing can sometimes be a name for a person: Moon Unit Zappa, for instance. And often names have internal kinds of thrusts in them.

The name "glenn" for instance can be a secluded glacial crevasse now widened into a peaceful book, or it could simply be a dumb older brother (no bro jokes, Mel). 

Lately I have been entranced with names: some of my student workers this past week for example can be illustrative: Chloe, Darius, Tiffany, Ashton, Nyema  could you guess how many and which of those students are male or female? Good luck. And there are other students: Adeana, Jasmine, Alicia, 
the ubiquitous Jennifer, Roman, Devin, Davon, and the various forms of Brittany (-eny,-ainy,-einy, etc.).

Names say something: like "Amber" for instance. Breathe that name and slowly pronounce it. Ahm--be-er, or maybe even Ahm--bey--air. A name to conjure with...

Resist, resist, resist!!!!!!!!!!

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