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Recieved: 2001/03/27 06:20
Subject: [K-list] What's in a name
From: Murrkis
On 2001/03/27 06:20, Murrkis posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Annamarie,
>Jesus' mother was Mary and her mother was Anna. At the time when I was born
>there was a song about Annemarie very popular in the Swiss/German speaking
>countries. My Mom told Dad to go register my name but make absolutely sure
>that it was spelled with an e. He, being excited at having his first child
>promptly forgot about it in that office and registered me as Annamarie. Mom
>was furious and had me spell it ever since the other way which was then the
>modern way. I wasn't nuts about the name because there were so many of us.
>A lot of mothers must have liked the hit as mine did.
Your name has beautiful grooves to it. Very melodious... with a richness
around the rolling r. Mmmm... beauty.
My aunt is Annerose, a variation, but somehow a different flavor.
My name, Nina, is derived from Ann / Anna / Anne, which means grace.
Ironically, I had no physical grace as a child. It was only later that I
grew into my name. ;)
>I like the idea of native culture where the child gets a name and then gets
>to change it to something he wants to be called at a later age.
Yes, you are not the only one. My brother, named Niko, has spent most of
his childhood disliking the unusualness of his name (we lived in the US).
He made his friends call him Nick. I think it is only now, in his early
twenties, that he is beginning to appreciate a connection to the name.
Recognition of the importance of name in making identity made it impossible
for me to leave my "maiden" name behind. Heh, I remember telling my father
that I would be keeping OUR last name, combining it with John's (John would
be taking the new last name, as well, but we hadn't told my father that
yet)... my father was horrified (?) and asked what John's father thought of
that. What a fabulous mirror he was that day... though I'm not sure who was
mirroring who. ;)
It is interesting how I have formed identity around my names...
born Nina Linette Murrell, a staccato flow with a swelling accent at the end
Nina is the strongest identity pull, Linette the sweet hidden secret
Murrell the datum
Murrell-Kisner has become a burden, Linette has been lost
Some day I may just drop everything and go with Nina. Nothing else. ;)
A name is like any other body part... to be accepted and loved for what it
is. By extension, it isn't your essence, either... letting go of your name
is letting go of ego.
>Am (sorry Wim, it's shorter) ;)
Sorry for this lengthy contemplation...
restfully still,
Nina
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