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<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\nThe breeze told me<\/span><\/p>\n that our names serve as prophecy. And<\/span><\/p>\n if a request could have floated from my preformed lips up to my mother\u2019s hopes:<\/span><\/p>\n amanda<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I would say <\/span><\/p>\n amanda<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I cry<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As for my mom, she thought <\/span>princess<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n And I can\u2019t complain.<\/span><\/p>\n There are perks to being a princess\u2014born with natural talents, set to inherit the realms sitting on those shelves that line my room.<\/span><\/p>\n I can paint, harmonize, dance, braid hair, dream, and I have a well-tamed temper that furrows my eyebrows in an endearing way\u2014or so they say.<\/span><\/p>\n I became my name.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n People tell me there is no use for my classics major.<\/span><\/p>\n But I tell them <\/span>amanda<\/span><\/i> means <\/span>she who must be loved.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n There is something different about just being loved.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s a fact. A necessity.<\/span><\/p>\n The weight of <\/span>princess<\/span><\/i> is the gildedness of the <\/span><\/p>\n gold. Lovable in nature, lovable for Reasons: <\/span><\/p>\n for the work created, <\/span><\/p>\n for the music made,<\/span><\/p>\n for the image painted,<\/span><\/p>\n for the role fulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As diamonds tug at the ear and gemmed bracelets cage both wrists<\/span><\/p>\n I say back to the breeze<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n o esse amanda<\/span><\/i>. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n FOOTNOTES<\/b><\/p>\n 1: Latin for “Not uncommanded do I sing.”<\/span><\/p>\n 2: Latin for “O to be amanda.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sarah Ling <\/span>\u2019<\/span>24<\/span> loves God and admires His creativity. She is on the continual pursuit of Beauty and hopes that she can mimic even the smallest amount of this in her own life\u2014starting with the <\/span>Telos<\/span><\/i> journal and graphic designs around the campus and Williams Christian Fellowship.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NON INIUSSA CANO \u2014ECLOGA VI:IX [1] The breeze told me that our names serve as prophecy. And if a request could have floated from my preformed lips up to my mother\u2019s hopes: amanda I would say amanda I cry As for my mom, … Continue reading “Esse Amanda”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}