Oh, dear. I thought ski admitted he’s a he.
First a long time, many thought I’m male. Not.
@lookingforward , did she? He? I’m certain I read a couple of threads in which ski discussed something decidedly female. Anyway, I don’t want to violate TOS so I’ll stop there.
There’s a user called @Nrdsb4 . I love that name. I can’t help but add to it…Nrdsb4 beauty, Nrdsb4 jocks, Nrdsb4 the apocalypse, etc…
How appropriate that this thread marks my 10,000th post! Wonder how many hours of my life that equals? ?
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People have asked me if I was a nerd before…as in my youth, I suppose.
*wir sehen uns an,
wir sagen uns Dunkles,
wir lieben einander wie Mohn und Gedächtnis,
wir schlafen wie Wein in den Muscheln,
wie das Meer im Blutstrahl des Mondes *
From Paul Celan’s poem Corona (and the book in which it appeared, Celan’s first, was titled Mohn und Gedächtnis)
“we see each other
we say dark things
we love one another like poppy and memory
we sleep like wine in musselshells
like the sea in the moon’s blood-red ray”
I really love early Celan. Celan itself was a sort of screen name – an anagram of the Romanian spelling of the poet’s birth-name, Antschel.
I’m on a college sports forum where I am completely believed to be a middle-aged male. I have a lot of cred on that forum. I never really intended to present that way, but I have a lot of knowledge and no one ever considered that I was an (older) female!
I think mine is fairly obvious. I live in the mountain west and being in/near the mountains feeds my soul. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” ~John Muir
@HarrietMWelsch Love that book! As a kid I would pretend to be like Harriet, making observations in my little notebook.
@TheGreyKing Love The Dark is Rising series too. Under Sea, Over Stone is still one of my favorite books.
OK whenever I think someone’s a male I am usually wrong. So I assume everyone’s a female until proven otherwise … BTW… I am a male ?
my name and my 5 children. Been on since oldest was a junior. 1999/2000
Kat w/kittens
Mine’s pretty obvious, though my own garden is usually more unkempt than not these days (heat and humidity deter me more than I’d like to admit anymore ) and my gardening style tends more and more toward native plants, ecosystems, the various birds, insects and, critters that visit my small yard. I mix in a few herbs and vegetables with my flowers, and have a large compost pile. My backyard has become a woodland, where I try to grow native hydrangeas, ferns and mosses (I say try, because I’m too sympathetic toward hungry deer).
Since earliest childhood I have loved gardens, especially the semi-wild English country types (that still incorporate some formal but fanciful elements like clipped topiary animals and arches smothered in once-blooming heirloom roses). I loved the book -The Secret Garden- as a child and I still practically swoon over Inga Moore’s illustrations of the English countryside in -The Wind in the Willows-. I also adore the green roofs of traditional Scandinavian houses and hope we can someday incorporate green roofs in all our cityscapes (as well as create innovative gardens everywhere such as the Highline of NYC and the Prairie Garden of NYC). If I were young again, I’d probably want to double-major in art or art history and botany (or something to do with ecosystems) and do graduate work in landscape design.
I’m not formally religious but I think we all have a little longing for that state of endless grace within a timeless garden of Eden.
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I am a big believer in the phrase “prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child”, so I am cheering them on but I won’t find/make/force their place in the world for them.
Mine’s pretty obvious too probably, my Newfs train for water rescue. 
Wait – what? 
Mine’s not particularly clever - I love to cook!
Mine came from when my D (now 31) was 3, someone asked her “is your mom’s name xxxxx?” and her response was “no, she’s just a mom” - that became my nickname for a lonnnnngggg time.
Every time I see your username, my brain automatically plays the association game by conjuring up Hermann Hesse’s “Hours in the Garden,” a collection of his poems…
Ah, @TiggerDad, I will have to look that up. I always like the HH quote:
“ You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions.” ? I try !
I’m just trying to make life for all the guessers like @Publisher easier! Plus occasionally it saves a line or 2 on my posts, and I knew from other boards I have been on I tend to write a lot of tldr posts, so this maybe helps a bit!
Mine is a description of what we see outside our window, usually summer and late winter mornings.
My name was chosen because I collect silver. I love English silver, especially Georgian.
TexasExMom: I am a UT Austin alum and I am a mom