La Zenita – Albuquerque, New Mexico
In his immortal play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare used two lines to convey that the naming of things is irrelevant: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” My friends Bruce and Loren Plata like to remind me that in Hebrew, the name “Gil” represents a “small goat,” an animal that definitely doesn’t smell quite as fragrant as a rose. My retort, of course, is that “goat” is an acronym for “greatest of all time.” So, relevant or not, names do have meanings and can provide a lifetime of notoriety. Most of us just hope our names aren’t something that can be made fun of. In…