We don't know if the little one that will be born in November is a boy or a girl, but so far we've had more fun throwing around female names. We were pretty pleased with ourselves when all 3 of us seemed to like Sabina Gaia. Sabina is easy to pronounce in Romanian and I liked the nickname "Sabi" (what Briana calls the hot green paste, "wasabi", Daddy likes to mix with soy sauce) and Dana's read lovely theological books on the concept of "gaia", the greek earth goddess, but more recently an intellectual paradigm for the gorgeous unity of the cosmos. Well all that was shot through when we ran the names by our closest Romanian friend. Apparently "Sabina" is a peasant's name (in other words, it's hick), negatively associated with uneducated, insular village life. (Perhaps akin to Bubba or Thelma Lou in the States.) And "Gaia" is part of a popular expression which means, "I'm going to kick your a_ _!"
So it's back to the drawing board.
Granted it's just one person's humble opinion (we'd be glad for other Romanians' thoughts), but for now we've scratched "I'm going to kick your hick butt!" from the list.
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Ack, the naming conundrum. Well, I doubt that this will help, but our various and sundry cats over the years have been named: Oliver (Wendell Holmes), Emily and Lavinia (Dickinson), Harriet (Tubman), Arthur, and Humphrey, who was an adopt-a-cat to whom we gave a new name (his original name was Zebra). Delighted that you're expecting and hoping it goes very smoothly from here. I find your blog warm, funny, and inspiring. Please keep writing!
Congratulations!! And thinking of a name sure IS a challenge...good luck.
Okay, as you noticed, I finally got a chance to read your blog, and I love it! did you know that Spare the Rock is on Chris' radio station? Atticus hosted it a while back, and I think you can listen to that online.
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