Lilac Colored Glasses

Well, when someone has a pair of honed scissors aimed at your skull and tells you that your posts are too long, you wise up and shorten your damn posts. Also, there’s the fact that I have a crapload of work to do, including the editing of several papers, the organization of over a hundred anecdotal notes and the formation of said notes into six presentable parent-teacher conference forms.
Procrastination Maximus, mea culpa.

Anyway, back to Dan’s mention of names, I decided to look up the meanings of my names and post them here. Enjoy.

Korie
First, you all need to know that you will NEVER easily find the name “Korie” anywhere because it is a very uncommon spelling. If you want your kid to have one of those license plates with their name on it, do not name your child Korie. I found meanings for my name, spelled as is, both here and here. This is totally cool because in the past when I’ve done name searches, I’m always bounced around to different spellings and that can often lead to different origins and meanings. Typically I get spellings of (C/K)or(y/i). Usually that’s a Greek origin and it means “maiden”. I have also come across the Gaelic origin which means “hole” or “hollow”. Today, however, my search has revealed two sources that identify my name with it’s exact spelling to be of Gaellic origin and to mean “between two cliffs” or “one who dwells in a hollow.”

Michelle
Because I was able to find my mutatedly spelled first name on those two sites I showed you before, I figured I would use those two sites again for my middle name. Here and here. Different origins, Hebrew and French, but the same meaning: Who is like God? Yes, my middle name is a question. An astronomically large question regarding a deity that I no longer hold any belief in. But hey, my first name means “I live in a hole,” so why bother getting irked by the middle name?

Klein
This is pretty easy. Klein is Germanic in origin (yeah, it’s German, but it is also used in Dutch as well, so it’s not just German, it’s Germanic). It means “small.” Interestingly enough, the family name was changed when my father was very young. It used to be Kleinberg, which is German meaning “small mountain.”

Which comes full circle, really, considering my first name says that I’m a person dwelling between two mountains, or in a hole somewhere in the mountains.

oh and a brief fyi: my Hebrew name is Kaylah Malkah. Kaylah means “full of joy” and Malkah means “queen.”

I wonder how that conversation went:
“What do you think, hun, should we name our first born child “cave dweller” or “joyful queen?”"
“Hrm, Cave Dweller….Joyful Queen….Cave Dweller……..Joyful Queen. Well, let’s take a look at her.”

Cave Dweller it is!