We Made This Baby!

How did we arrive at our son’s name?

Lawrence was an obvious choice knowing how important Lawrence Ferlinghetti is to my wife. What everyone might not know is this was my father’s name who also had a strong influence on my life. We honor both of these men with one name. Easy.

Escher is a derivative of Esther, the mother of Leon Lewis and grandmother of Stacey. I had suggested just naming the kid Esther. Stacey was a bit afraid that Lawrence might get picked on with a woman’s name in between Lawrence and Baunach, but I certainly didn’t care. Not to puff my chest out too far, but Stacey and I are tall people, so I can only assume that our son could easily defend a woman’s name in the school yard. (Wow, I’m really projecting here.) In the end,  we were in the middle of the woods sitting around a camp fire with our friends, Yo and Frank, when we came upon simply switching the “T” with a “C” to come up with Escher. And, after a bit of searching we felt Escher was beautiful and unique even though neither of us had any romantic notion of the most famous Escher, that being M.C.. Fortunately, M.C. Escher led a life that I would be proud for my son to aspire to.