I initially had an indifferent perspective on my name. First seeing it as something entirely boring and a little old fashioned in a family full of āclassically namedā american folks, then to seeing it as surprisingly over played the older I got.
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In recent years Iāve essentially truncated my last name to Sage because my surname is difficult to spell & pronounce. I love that many adult acquaintances donāt know my real name and I have this built in botanical association Iāve *chosen*.
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No matter how common the name is in the real world, and Iām no longer the only Caroline like the small town I grew up in, I do find it undeniably sweet.
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I love that many people have positive associations with my name, and thereās a certain joy associated with it because of countless songs in pop culture. For the past few years one of my go to social media bios is āthe one all of those songs are named after.ā
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No nicknames stuck much as a child, besides being called āCā here and there, with my sibling called āB.ā But in recent years my best friend started calling me *Care*, hence the username, and itās the first nickname Iāve connected with and felt loved through. Sorry to all the Caro-s and Carols out there, I always felt frumpy when I was called either growing up.
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My mom causally claims that God, yes God, told her to name me in a dream way before her pregnancy. I like to affirm I was given the name because itās *in my being to care* but I canāt wait to see what nicknames I collect with the more people I meet, love, and am known by <3
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always loved the name Virginia as well, and Chrysanthemum because of the childrenās book.
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I have a very traditional biblical name as some of you may know and i was sad that it was entirely un-nick-namable but I think it suits me and my personality now. My parents almost named me Kirsten and I sometimes wonder if I would be different if they had gone with thatā¦ and I LOVE when little old southern ladies say my first name and middle name together especially if they preface it with a Miss.
my last name is actually too unique, hyphenated, and ridiculously long and was embarrassing to me for most of my life but Iāve found peace with that too and wouldnāt change it for anything š«¶
Jun 8, 2024
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never liked my name growing up because most of elementary school was spent in florida. it was a huge culture shock coming from the north then being one of like two or three kids of color in my class at any given time. i wanted a stereotypical āwhite girl nameā with a middle name like marie or rose. spent a lot of middle school going by daisy.
i also am greatly tired of the ādeja vuā jokes.
my mom got my name from tyra bankās character in āhigher learningā/a tony! toni! tonĆ©! song. i guess thatās cool. she just spelled it very phonetically, which didnt help peopleās mispronunciation of my easy name but (to me) looks very dumbed down on paper (day-JAH) and then people pronounce the j really hard idk.
most of my friends call me day āļø i like that at least. i wouldn't have minded the name raven, and i think my momās other name contender was tia (like sister sister) but that would have kind of rhymed with my last name so im good on that.
Jun 8, 2024
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because I cannot handle the thought of the radical transformation to my body and my life butā¦
* Charlotte (my great grandmotherās name; she went by Lottieā¦ she owned the first plant nursery in my hometown after moving there from Mississippi and she also grew prize-winning chrysanthemums and roses. this is my favorite one)
* Katherine (another great-grandmotherās name. She grew up in a Norwegian ethnic community in Iowa, worked at a bomb factory during the war, and eventually ended up in a biker gang in her old age)
* Johanna or Joanna (I just always wished this were my name itās so dignified)
* Anne (same as above and I love Anne of Green Gables lol)
* Chloe (no reason I just like it)
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* James (long-standing family name, in honor of a dearly departed relative)
* Thomas (in honor of my dadās late best friend Tom who was my āuncleāāhe was everything to me!)
* Jonathan (my dadās name)
* William (another family name)
* Charles (I just love this one)
* Henry (LOVE this one)
* Gore (after Gore Vidal obviously but also as a way of preserving my family name which is also why he named himself that; he felt a connection to that side of his family and his beloved grandparents but Gore was his motherās surnameā¦ he was originally named Eugene Luther lmao)
Nov 2, 2024
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one of my friends gave me one of these bad boys for my birthday and it is perhaps one of the best gifts Iāve received. they knew my struggle with wanting to listen to music on my morning walks while resisting the urge to use my phone first thing. they burned a few of my playlists and theirs onto tapes and it feels so much more nostalgic, personal, and conversational. listening to a tape all the way through without skipping is a lost treasure trove for mindfulness imo. pretty affordable and easy to rig burning cassettes or buying from the thrift :)
Dec 18, 2024
truly any homemade berry lemonadeāextra sour and refreshing served in a two hands width jar
Dec 21, 2024
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*INS*:
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ā¢ computer time
ā¢ failure as the learning process
ā¢ being earnest to the point of annoyance
ā¢ savoring
ā¢ BCS (best case scenario)
ā¢ listening to an album start to finish
ā¢ āputting an idea downā
ā¢ photo albums
ā¢ long form
ā¢ mobility & flexibility
ā¢ aquamarine
ā¢ phone calls
ā¢ soups all year
ā¢ glasses
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*OUTS*:
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ā¢ dms
ā¢ being an island
ā¢ āhealthyā sodas
ā¢ makeup
ā¢ repetition
ā¢ posting stories
ā¢ hiding what I want
ā¢ pinterest
ā¢ ācraftā cocktails
ā¢ online dating discourse
ā¢ unfinished projects
ā¢ political infotainment
ā¢ getting in my own way
Dec 22, 2024