G is for Green

I got tagged by Katherine E at Meaning and Authenticity. Here's the deal:

1. You have to post the rules before you give your answers.
2. You must list one fact about yourself beginning with each letter of your middle name. (If you don't have a middle name, use your maiden name or your mother's maiden name).
3. At the end of your blog post, you need to tag one person for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged.)

Modifying, per usual. Gannet's middle name is the name she actually uses, and her last name is her maiden name (since she wasn't inclined to change it when she got married), either of which might thereby reveal the woman behind the curtain.. Therefore, she will stick to her authentic and essential Gannet identity for this one.

Wanna play? Go for it!

G is for Green, a la Elpheba, which is my way of getting a WICKED Post in. I think that one reason for WICKED's working on so many levels is that we all can see something of ourselves in both Elpheba and Glinda. Haven't we all felt green -- isolated and insignificent at times -- at times? And then, perhaps, someone tells us that the very parts of us that seem destined for the rubbish heap are, in fact, the gifts we most need to cherish and hone?

Did that really just happen?

Have I actually understood?

This weird quirk I've tried

To suppress or hide

Is a talent that could

Help me meet the Wizard

If I make good

So I'll make good...

(The Wizard and I, sung by Elphaba)

A is for Adventurous. Not the sky-diving kind of adventurous, but the hand-me-my-passport-and-a-plane-ticket and I am outta here kind. Or the go-to-seminary-in-your-50s kind.

N is for narrator. I love a good story, so much so that focus often eludes me. I started working on a sermon yesterday and, 2500 words into it (I always start by writing what turns out to be two or three of them and then figuring out which one it really is) it occurred to me to wonder, Is there a point here?

N is also for nevertheless. Because I am a both-and kind of girl.

E is for Energetic. I am in reality astonishingly lazy, which explains my presence at the computer when I have a thousand things to do, but I am also going to accomplish a great many of them. (Not the ones I don't care about, but the ones I do -- yeah, I will.)

T is for Transformed. Oh, I feel another WICKED post coming on. I'll try to contain it for a few days.

P.S. Would someone please comment???!!!! Here I am, ON VACATION, time to spare, and I am getting hardly any comments, hardly any mail -- HEY!!!! (That's the Glinda in me speaking!)