BS: Help name the baby

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 03:46 PM

Cute, Kat, but I wouldn't be able to "attach" the baby in quite the same way I did on the one I just completed. There's a little bump there on the Mom, based on a prototype I saw somewhere...
Darnit, Wesley, I thought I would have a little break before I started another one, but you just may have messed me up there. The wife and friends have been going "now you'll have to start another one", and I have been pleading uncertainty as to when the next concept would come to mind. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:27 PM

Not necessarily, Wesley: click:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:03 PM

How about a father and child next time ? It's an underused theme. Yes - I realise that breastfeeding would be out of the question.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:48 PM

Good luck with the sale it is beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:32 PM

Uh...guys...It's nice to get your continuing responses, and you can still express your choice of a name, but the carving is at the gallery now, under the title "Promises to Keep". It will be there in this show through March.
Who knows; unless it happens to sell now, I may put it in again later under one of the other titles you all have come up with.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 12:09 PM

"Sharing"

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:18 AM

The mother is looking, looking, looking at the fascinasting new person. Call it "Fascinated."

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 09:09 PM

sustenance

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 08:42 PM

Dreams

Wesley, that's a beautiful reminder. Thanks, darlin'

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:41 PM

Circle.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: tarheel
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:32 PM

Mother and OLYMPIA...

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:46 PM

The figure as shown may be a woman - but we dads make a lot of promises too during those 2 AM feedings. I know I did. And that's what I was reminded of when I saw the piece. Art can bring back a lot of memories. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:37 PM

I like just "Promises"

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:00 PM

Couldn't get in until now, but I thought of "The Comfort of Love" as soon as I saw it. That could be modified to "Comforting Love," "Mother's Comfort," etc. Beautiful piece.

Oh, or "Quiet Love."

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:47 PM

How about going retro to the middle ages and use a name followed by your town... like Leonardo D' Vinci.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:42 PM

Sapling.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,Jack the lumberjack
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:23 PM

Go for the With the grain option.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Janie
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:02 PM

Does that make any of us godparents?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:35 AM

Oh, I had "bonding" down as a possibility from early on. But I think I'm commited to "Promises to Keep". Unless I switch to one other thing I told my wife I was considering: as kind of a take off on DaVinci's "Last Supper" I said I might call it "Da Kid's First Lunch"...

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,Arnie
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 08:38 AM

I too like the one about the woodgraining but what about something like 'The tender bonding' or something that fully describes what is happening...within reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 10:49 PM

Wesley, Jude, & Janie; thank you! You did it for me, though I'm not using it exactly as given. Here's the thing:

That little one in the arms knows only:

       Got no deeds to do, no promises to keep;
       I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep.

But, in fact, his whole life is promise.

The mother may never be more aware of the promises she now has to keep for the rest of her days.

Some of us might even say that this is a moment in which God has a lot of promises to keep.

Which, I think, has to make the title:

         "PROMISES TO KEEP"

(but thanks to all of you for all the good thoughts)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 07:15 PM

Easier than milking a Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 06:58 PM

talk about milking a joke....

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 06:51 PM

Just say it's a commision for the Lack-Tate gallery.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 06:31 PM

Heredi-tree?
G

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 06:24 PM

Giok, that one had occured to me for the first time just this afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 06:21 PM

Chip off the old Block!
G ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 05:30 PM

Believe it or not, I had no trouble seeing either of at least two posts that were thrown in for fun; f'goo'ness sake, don't make this an occasion for anyone getting their skivies in a knot.
The only problem I've got here, is several of these are so good I could be happy with them, and I have to settle on one.
"With the Grain" is sublime, once the thought is explained .
If I settle on "Lignum Vitae", I can subtitle "wood of life" in parenthesis. But "I Promise" is also on the short list right now. Glad I have most of a couple of days to decide, and worst case I can
pull one out of a hat. Even if ya throw in something for a joke, it might happen to help me decide.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,Timberman
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 11:15 AM

I guess I like the one that mentions the 'grain' also. With the grain sounds promising.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 10:24 AM

If you want to be ironic (and this is best understood by current or formerly nursing mothers) you could call it "Let Down."

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 04:23 AM

You can translate Lignum Vitae roughly as wood life or wood of life, and the actual wood of that name comes from the heartwood of a variety of ironwood. It was the thought of a child suckling, and being given life thereby that brought it to mind as a title. There is also an interesting juxtaposition in using the name of one wood to title a piece made from another wood.
Am I being too ironic here?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Alba
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 12:26 AM

In fact I am tired and my dslexia is showing..so off to bed.
I will not attempt in the future to engage in humorous banter with you SRS as we obviously have a different view of what is and isn't funny.
Maybe I am just too slow to pick up on the association you made with Lignum Vitae, a very attractive hard wood I happen to like, and your post.
Night All

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Alba
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 12:11 AM

Not at all.
I had seen Giok;s post after the discusion of the wood type used but sis not equate your post with his.
I thought I too was being Humorous but obviously not...

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 12:04 AM

Just a generic translation of Giok's suggestion. . .Lignum vitae. Why do you ask? Is humor disallowed here?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Alba
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 11:32 PM

SRS is there are possibilty that you thought you were posting to the "help name the Woodpecker" Thread?
Of course if your suggestion is indeed Woody (which could be an abrev. for Woodrow) for the Baby's name..then please forget the other thread thingy I mentioned :)
Love
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 10:40 PM

Woody

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Janie
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 10:19 PM

"I Promise"

Yes. Frogprince, there have been a lot of thoughtful and appropriate ideas here. FWIW, Wesley's suggestion really resonated with the piece as I experienced it. "I Promise" really captures the feel of the piece. Both solomn and intimate. The abrupt contrast of the fluid curves of the wood and grain and a woman not quite yet finished, taking on that lifetime vow with every intention, being at the beginning of the journey, of living up to it in full.

I don't mean to sound either sappy or presumptuous. Just thought you might like to know how one person has responded to the carving.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: open mike
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 09:44 PM

i like the "grain" one,,,
the grain of the wood is so beautiful
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Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 08:43 PM

A moment in time.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 08:06 PM

Mighta known you guys would give me such good ones that it will be harder to decide...

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Alba
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 06:01 PM

Oh Wesley, that's beautiful!:)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 05:33 PM

"I Promise"

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 01:15 PM

What about simply "With the grain".....the implication being that it is not "against the grain" which is the expression for being wrong. Also takes the wood into account.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 01:14 PM

Wooden Heart!
G

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: open mike
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 01:13 PM

removeable baby?>

little whittle?

progeny?

what did Gepetto say to Pinocchio?
when you grow up youre going to be a real boy?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 01:03 PM

Why not call it "I Made a Baby"?? It has a number of interesting overtones.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Janie
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 12:14 PM

"Mother and Child" seems perfect to me.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 11:53 AM

Lignum vitae.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Alba
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 10:42 AM

Unconditional Love
Nurture
Where comfort lies
A Journey begins
resting in the Arms of Love.

Just thoughts FP:)
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Help name the baby
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 10:32 AM

how about "precious moment"