Naming introduction

I absorbed an amazing story once on my many travels across the country traversing I-40 from Albuquerque to Charleston.
In one such trip after listening to A Barbara Kingslover novel that was amazing and beautiful, Prodigal Summer, I started with an obscure book of which I have never found again. This book was story of an aboriginal Australian child. I listened to the layering of spirituality, landscape and person and became transfixed by one idea in particular. The idea of choosing and selecting a name either on your own or for someone else.
And the name becomes revealed to us through our experiences with the world around us.

I have taken this concept and loosely been adapting the name Coal. The purpose of this is playful and also meaningful. (This is how I create meaning, wink.) The idea that people walk around and say ridiculous things like, she does not look like a Courtney. Or he is definitely not a Jim, is some kind of latent desire to create these architypes...or positions of life. by regarding a name with purpose and meaning instead of perhaps the one in which we are given we are selecting a new path, a new way of the world and others perceiving them.

I know how can new experiences and perceptions of the world be created by a simple slight adjustment of your name?
Well I know people who call me by my full given name. They do that because I used it completly to introduce myself to them; others have shortened it to a nickname and thus for reasons of endearment intimacy or control have changed their perceptions of who I am. You see we are universes unto ourselves but each one of us houses complete and totally separate universes of understanding about who and what each other are. By creating names and developing that name with people whom you are experiencing the world, we will come to start navigating through each other in ways thought impossible. Seeing and admiring reflections of stars through are blue and brown and green lights...
Or maybe just to make each other roll on the floor laughing...
The name will have refernces personal, historical...meanings that change and shift and even holds the possibilties to alter and change the name in the future.
Its almost like a new outfit, a new suit...you can try on and walk around in, seersucker or polka-dot.
Its also revealing to see yourself outside and all its complexities...Am I really a George?

Laugh...I do. I am gonna go burn some sage..and whisper my hidden name in the mirror...See if I pay attention...

My name is Coal . Now.
Tomorrow it may not be.