What’s In A Name?
I have a somewhat common name which is usually taken by the time I get around to signing up for a service. I’ve never had a nickname, so I had to come up with a more creative username.
“Private Storm” is a song by singer/songwriter Sam Phillips from her 1991 album Cruel Inventions.
Sam Phillips – Private Storm
I’ve always loved Sam’s music, all the way back to the days when she was known as Leslie. Most of the kids my age listened to New Kids on the Block or CCM back then, but I always had The Turning on constant repeat.
The Turning was unlike any of the bland, cookie-cutter CCM that I had grown up with. At the time of its release, some in the CCM industry deemed her a heretic, but as she told me this past summer, she “just wanted to make better records.”
A couple of years ago I registered this domain – privatestorm.com – not because that is my favorite Sam song. The lyrics are a bit of a downer in some ways, although at certain points in my life I could clearly relate.
Sam Phillips – Private Storm
we lock the hurricane indoors
looking for shelter, we deny and ignore
afraid that our words bring clouds we talk in code
the thunder or cruel perfection covers love
and we’re cold
the private storm
and our souls are worn from the tears
the private storm
and it rages on through the years
no warning the ground pulls out from underneath
we tiptoe through air until we see the blood on their teeth
time doesn’t heal, the scars turn into wounds
as we walk lightly silent screams in the storm
Lyrics from: LyricWiki
I’ve locked my own personal hurricanes indoors and have been very private about almost everything. All too often I have let my own “thunder of cruel perfection” stop me from doing things because I didn’t think even my best would be good enough. I’m still very conscious of retaining a level of privacy, but at the same time, I’m ready to stop talking in code.
So… I thought, for now, a suitable tagline for this blog will be: “unlocking the hurricane that’s been raging on through the years.”
Most of all, I just like the way those two words sound together. For me, the phrase ‘private storm’ conjures the idea of brainstorming, which is something I’m always doing. And something that I will frequently blog about from now on.
