Valerie Veronica
I wonder about names. They seem so important to us.
Pretty much we choose names for our children before they are born. Some are named for saints. What a lovely thing. Or named after their parents. It is so interesting.
My mother had a few favorite names. Caroline and Dorothy were two, but she finally named me Gloria. She liked the name, and she liked naming me after a movie star. I was really named after Tante Fanny whose Jewish name was Gitte Fagel, and it became mine. It means either Good Bird or Golden Bird.
American Indians waited until the child’s personality and character revealed what the child’s name would be. Very poetic names, like One Who Brought Happiness or Beautiful Cloud or Tree That Grows Tall. I wonder what our names might have been.
That tradition seems so lovely, yet in modern days, it would depend a lot on who would name us. I am not sure that everyone would pick great names for us.
I knew a really loving mother who nicknamed her little boy Skunk. Maybe it was after a wonderful character in a book, I don’t know, but I could never understand why any mother would call her little boy Skunk!
It must make a difference what we are named.
It seems to me that there has been a rise in people changing their names. Around here someone will change their name to Ananda or Kartika at the blink of an eye. That takes guts.
There is a school of thought that according to the date of our birth, for our best evolution, our names would begin with a certain sound. In my case, it was the sound T as in Tatiana. Tatiana was the name I would have chosen if I were going to change it. Actually, I did play with it for a day or two.
I almost named my daughter Elizabeth, but then chose Lauren which was a rare name at the time. I, too, like my mother, knew the name because it was a movie star’s.
I remember once, when Lauren was about nine or ten, she was thinking deeply, and then looked up and asked me: “Why didn’t you name me Valerie Veronica?”
Valerie Veronica! Of course now, I’m sure she’s glad I didn’t.
Will you tell us the story of your name?
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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