Did you ever do a Lexigram of your name? My mom has done lexigrams for a good few years now. She starts with your full birth name and proceeds to pick out words based on the letters in your name. The words she pulls out is what “makes” you, you and is supposed to reflect parts of your personality.
Mildred Manning is my great-grandmother. Mildred’s daughter (my grandmother) married Robert Redman. So, why am I telling you this? Well just look at the letters in Mildreds name:
mildRED MANning. Cool huh?
My name has the words “Car Tire is Flat” in it and needless to say, I’ve had TONS of tire problems in my life!
Which brings me to my tire story from last week. This is my second consecutive visit that I have managed to get a flat tire. The strange part of this story is that times my flat tire occurred in the same exact spot, I got off the highway at the exact same exit and pulled into the same exact service station to wait for help! Talk about DejaVu!
Sam and I were driving to pick up her friend to go bowling and apparently I drove over a piece of metal, which then stuck directly into the side of the tire! As I was driving down the highway, people were pointing at us, but I couldn’t quite catch what they were trying to tell me. I couldn’t yet feel the tire and I thought they were telling me the trunk was open. Then it dawned on me about my last visit and I pulled over to see, again, another flat!
Life is so strange sometimes, is it not?
Did you just get the flat tire?? I think it is odd too.
I used to have more flat tires then I want to remember??!! But I do remember and this is one of the stories: I was driving on the highway and I did not get my recent tire fixed, so I did not have a spare……..and Rick (the man I was dating at the time) says, as we are driving on the highway…….”Did you get the flat tire fixed”? …….I was in the middle of the sentence……….saying, “Don’t even mention it.” When the tire we were driving on went flat.
I don’t think I have car tire is flat in my name……..Your Mom told me to stop worrying about it and not put the energy into it. I was always worried. It worked and I haven’t had a flat tire in years. xo
Remember the part in the Jim and Dan Stories about the Native American women telling us that our cars and what goes wrong with them are metaphors for our lives.
Funny story and well told.
Here’s my lexigram.
Colleen Redman:
One cell
neo eon
call on
no more con
am real
am me
dare to dream
mend end
lend ear
read code
made lore
colored red
amen
men need
land and all
namer named
can come
lord made clear
can care
can lead
adorn me
one candle
and lace
one race
mean more
one core
do
om
dream
on
dance near
dear