"What's in a name?"

[shards4shekina]

I recently suggested to my belly dance instructor that I might take the name Shekina for my special belly dance name and asked her what she thought of it. She emailed me back asking me to reflect on what the name means to me. In response I wrote this, right off the top of my head:

"It's part of my live journal name. Which is shards4shekina. I like
the idea that we are all--that all is all--fragments of the Divine
essence. I like the idea that this happened because of an accident,
because the vessels carrying the Divine emanations were broken. I
like the idea that everytime we break, break something, fuck it up,
break down, that we are further fragmenting the essence of G-d and
that conversely, the paradoxical other side to this, is that in
fragmentation there is also expanse. There has been a certain amount
of fragmentation, of breaking, in the course of my little thirty six
years here on this earth. Maybe how I survive is by believing~really
believing~that each time something breaks and I become more fragmental
I am also paradoxically presented with the opportunity to become more
whole."

I thought I would post it here as some you (my wonderful readers) have asked me before about the significance of the name shards4shekina