Verushka.

Verushka.




I have been waiting more than a month to get my photos.
The photos of me and my Verushka.
She is not a baby.
She is not even a mammal.
She is a joyful mover- a vehicle.


Verushka.



I let someone OTHER than me take photos of me with my Verushka on the day I drove her for the first time. Just before she became a Verushka. And I haven't seen the photos yet (she said gruffly). That was in May.


After I took her home, and before she had a name, I brought her out to meet my-friend-who-was-to-help-me-namestorm (like brainstorm). Our namestorming session ended rather quickly, more or less before it even began; thwarting a long evening of binge drinking and rancid calls of supposed dubbing (no doubt accompanied by many a cackle), her first suggestion was a name she loved- Verushka....



So why did I go with Verushka?






Verushka.

Say it aloud.
Go on-

Verushka.



The phonetics are in the cream of the crop alongside galoshes and squelch.



Then (and then!) there is the supposed etymology.
A word related to verity, very, and Vera... as in truth with a capital T, and faith.

Do you not feel yourself a fan of Truth?
What skeptic would say no?
And as you blow down the interstate at 75 (AKA 90) mph, do you not proceed only because you have some underlying faith in your vehicle?


Verushka.



Famous Verushkas?
Daughter of a Count and Countess in Germany, her father becoming a member in the German Resistance after witnessing Jewish children beaten and killed... and who was executed for attempting to assassinate Hitler, she grew from homeless child into a world-famous actress and model, Veruschka [click]. Almost a Verushka.

She has been photographed as wood, rather splendidly mongering textures for someone or other [click].

Richard Avedon photographed her with a wild, whip-like braid [click]. Eh.


She worked with Dali.
Yes, Salvador.
The two of them are in the composition of a photo by Beard.
I don't like that photo so much, and it strikes me as less artistic when it should be more, so no link.

And in one of her self-portraits [click], she prowls.






Verushka.
Say it aloud.

For a few of the reasons listed above (and not for this one [click]), I kept it.



Consider the name explained.