What's in a name
Do our names make us, do we make them, or is it just by chance that sometimes we fall into the meanings of the names we bear? My first name is a short-form feminine diminutive for the Spanish male name Alonzo (or Alonso), a name that means "ready for battle". Part of my ancestry is Scots, so that leaves me with a clan also. That clan's motto is "Je suis pret", "I am ready". No idea how my middle name works into this. It means "grace". Not exactly a word I'd ascribe to myself at all, neither physically nor otherwise.