"From a girl named Taryn"

My name is brown. It is deep and warm. It nurtures, it wraps everything, encompassing all. In Irish Gaelic my name means "from the earth". My name feels like home, like lying in a golden field. It is red and orange and violet leaves showering from branches. It is deep brown earth beneath bare feet, tangible.

My name is 7. It is transcendent, but it is perpetual, like the earth. I was born in the Chinese year of the monkey, supposed to be a creature smart and creative but willing to put that aside to help another.

I have not one ethnicity, but many ethnicities. I have not lived one somewhere, but many somewheres. My name sounds like "Terra", Latin for earth. It feels like warm honey on your tongue. It looks like golden, sunkissed freckles on tan skin. It dances like our gypsy earth, alive and ringing with deep music.