Liza Martin-Pope

Liza…

What is one word that describes you?

Whats in a name ? is it an adjective ? Likely not, it is however an identifier, a word that if you know someone bring those memories and ideas about who they are from what you know of them to mind. I am infact, like everyone, exisiting as an idea, an image or even in the imagination of others. To describe that with one word, is to minimse any person. Unless that word was unique, which is what every person actually is, including me.

So my name is the word that describes me, assosciates me in others minds and really reminds me of who I am, how I exist and what that means to me. I have a slightly diferent given name. However all those years ago my grandparents never used my given name Lisa, instead they called me Liza. The sound of the Z made me smile. I liked it was diffrerent to the usual pronunciation and and it was reminiscent of my great grandparents on my mothers side of the family who Anglicanised their name Robinson from Rubenstein. So there is only one word that really describes me. It is Liza.

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