| Her Name Is Sophia
Because we like the name, Greek for Wisdom, so we had it ready as a birthday present. If we’d waited to read her style and dress her in what we thought matched, I’d want to call her Smiles-as-wide-as-the-Nebraska-skyline or Laughs-in-song or consider her survival through grade school recess tribunals and just say: “Joy.” I like how it works, though. I like that wisdom giggles, grins, is happy to catch a stranger’s eye in a grocery aisle, overflowingly overjoyed to wake up each morning and see her parent, imagining us as glorious beings who always know what they are doing. |
Matt's new book, Things We Don't Know We Don't Know, is available from Backwaters Press.