List of favorite things today:
chipotle || anchor tables (which very few people know were once medieval torture devices) || "The Da Vinci Code" || fur elise || bella || the sound of a violin || kitten fur || flannel sheets || vanilla scented candles || walking home with Em || new job || organic black tea || east asian calligraphic art || friday evening's spent soaking in the bathtub || indigo || venus
Someone asked me yesterday what the hell a sopheava (pronounced SO-FEE-AVA) is. After some careful thought I responded, "It's ME!" I know I'll be asked a hundred times where that name came from so let me put it out in the open once and for all.
When it came to deciding my domain name/alias/screen name I knew it would have to be something ingenious. After all, it IS 2004 and nearly anything and everything has already been swiped from right out under me. Thus, one evening in (shocker, I know), I sat down and started scribbling jibberish - literally. I found out very quickly that the name I picked must be plucked from thin air and would, in a single instant, be associated with me for the rest of eternity! No pressure at all. So what were these aforementioned words sprawled across my paper? See partial list above as I've included some of them on my list of favorite things today...
At the end of the day, I'm still a homeopathic, zen-loving, spiritually harmonizing bozo and the name I picked also had to be of a certain numerological value. Two favorite words emerged quickly: "sophia" - the greek word for wisdom; and "eva" - derived from the Hebrew word chavah "to breathe" or the related word chayah "to live".
I smushed them and ta-da! --> sopheava.