What's in a name?

Hello world! I am trying blogging. . . we will see how it goes. This blog will more than likely just be thoughts I have throughout life.

Today. . . an explanation of the name.

The title of this blog "Searching for the Llano" comes from my favorite series of books, the Incarnations of Immorality, by the talented author Piers Anthony.

These books follow people who become the human incarnations of being Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good, and Night. Recently I have been rereading these books, because the 8th one, Nox about the Incarnation of Night, came out and I am interested in reading it. I am also reading them again because there is a character that at one point I did not like. . . but I think I might like him more when I reread it this time.

Well. . . in quite a few of these books is a character named Orb, in fact one of them is completely about her. I associate greatly with Orb. She has honey blonde hair, and she is a singer. In the 4th book Orb is in India, and it is explaining why she is there. This is where the title comes in, and for this I will just quote it.

"Well, she was looking for a song, she explained. It was titled the Llano, and it was the most marvelous song ever to be sung on Earth but it was highly elusive. For one thing, it was very challenging to sing, so that only a few people in each generation could perform it successfully. She thought she might be able to sing it well enough and wanted to try. For another thing, it was said to be the most compellingly lovely song that the human voice was capable of rendering, and that intrigued her too. But mainly, she believed that her destiny lay with the song for whoever traced it to its source would discover the avenue to a wholly new fulfillment. Orb, dissatisfied with her mundane existence, sought that fulfillment."

Everyone wants a point in life, and Orb took that as hers, and I think it is one I could strive for. And no, sadly I don't expect to actually find a literal Llano, but in my journeys and discoveries through life, hopefully working my hardest to be the best singer I can be, healing with my voice, finding happiness in performing, that will be my Llano. And if I do happen to find a literal one somehow, well then awesome.