world · Day 7 · Week 1
A name not yet spoken
Naming is old work. You do not have to hurry it.
A name is not chosen. It is found.
In many old houses, a child was not named for days, sometimes weeks. The grandmother would wait. She would watch the baby sleep, watch the baby cry, watch the way light fell on the small forehead.
A name, she believed, was not chosen. It was found.