What's in a name?
02/18/07 08:11
EVERYTHING is in a name.
That's why it was so difficult to name daughter #2.
Cadence's name came to us so easily. If one can actually invoke a soul into their lives, I'm certain we did that with her. When we first met, we spent time creating a fictional world in writing. It was an enchanted place of faeries, a dryad, an elf, a dragon pup, and a child named Cadence. The setting for this fictional world was in a forest named Lyonsglade and in particular, a very ancient oak tree that the dryad called home. When our friendship evolved into a courtship, we inevitably set the writings aside for the making of our family.
The fictional characters became alive to us as we wrote about their adventures. When we decided to adopt a child, we already knew that we wanted to name her Cadence. And when we found out that her Chinese name is the same symbol used for a large tree, we were both astonished. It seemed so strange yet fitting that her Chinese name fit so well with the reason that we had chosen her American name.
It also seemed like a beautiful story to tell her as she gets older. How wonderful it would be to weave her life with ours as we tell her the story of our past and the meanings behind it. But it was also that much more difficult to decide on a name for her sister.
Cadence's name came to us so easily. If one can actually invoke a soul into their lives, I'm certain we did that with her. When we first met, we spent time creating a fictional world in writing. It was an enchanted place of faeries, a dryad, an elf, a dragon pup, and a child named Cadence. The setting for this fictional world was in a forest named Lyonsglade and in particular, a very ancient oak tree that the dryad called home. When our friendship evolved into a courtship, we inevitably set the writings aside for the making of our family.
The fictional characters became alive to us as we wrote about their adventures. When we decided to adopt a child, we already knew that we wanted to name her Cadence. And when we found out that her Chinese name is the same symbol used for a large tree, we were both astonished. It seemed so strange yet fitting that her Chinese name fit so well with the reason that we had chosen her American name.
It also seemed like a beautiful story to tell her as she gets older. How wonderful it would be to weave her life with ours as we tell her the story of our past and the meanings behind it. But it was also that much more difficult to decide on a name for her sister.
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