Why 'Mount Oregano'?

[mount_oregano]

Spanish is full of refrains. In Don Quixote de La Mancha, Sancho Panza often quotes them to show his wisdom, though he tends to get them wrong.

Cervante's novel includes a passing reference to a popular refrain: "No todo el monte es orégano." The mountain isn't all oregano. It means that any undertaking won't be all easy and agreeable; oregano is a soft, fragrant herb. Life isn't always a bed of roses, as we say in English.

That's why I'm Mount Orégano in LiveJournal. This mountain is oregano. Mostly.

What's behind your username?

— Sue Burke

Comments

[patchwork-prose.livejournal.com]

I don't do well with lots of activity/noise going on around me, and so I am always looking for "quiet spaces" where I can relax and take in what's around me and just relax and soak in life and hear myself thinking.

[patchwork-prose.livejournal.com]

I like oregano. Almost always have some on hand for cooking. I like the equation of it with roses.

[evilshrubbery.livejournal.com]

I used to be such a Monty Python geek as well as a gothy teen, so I combined evil and shrubbery and it's stuck. The mental image of an evilshrubbery is just funny too.

It was a question of names

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

kiwibird was taken. Drat the woman, she seems never to have used her journal, and so my real life nickname was unusable.

Re: It was a question of names

[mount-oregano.livejournal.com]

Oh, the kiwi bird! Now I get it.

[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

That is really lovely!

Arhyalon is the secret True Name of the Milky Way. (In one story, anyway. ;-)

Pronounced: Ar-High-A-Lon