Wednesday, November 29, 2017

A Word for Wednesday

"What is the name of that geranium on the windowsill, please?"

"That's the apple-scented geranium."

"Oh, I don't mean that sort of a name. I mean just a name you gave it yourself. Didn't you give it a name? May I give it one then? May I call it—let me see—Bonny would do—may I call it Bonny while I'm here? Oh, do let me!"

"Goodness, I don't care. But where on earth is the sense of naming a geranium?"

"Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums. It makes them seem more like people. How do you know but that it hurts a geranium's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else? You wouldn't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time. Yes, I shall call it Bonny."

~a conversation between Marilla and Anne in Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery~

2 comments:

  1. Love it. I have an orchid that Tyler's mom bought for me. What should I name her?

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    1. An orchid? Something pretty and slightly exotic. :)

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