MY Keywords

...the words and phrases that seem central to MY purview [the scope of the influence or concerns; ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope; the limit of someone's responsibility, interest, or activity; an area within which someone or something has authority, influence, or knowledge] of the world, a palette that grows, interweaves, and attracts new members...

Some of MY Keywords have a long history in my personal lexicon; some are recently added as I recognized their salience; some are (or were) foundational, and could/should spawn Essays in the Montagne model; and some are sudden revelations/realizations of deeper significance. I can begin to list them and to explore their semantic spaces, but the work of turning the list into a mapping of the territory of personal significance is a challenging project. Here's a provisional list (started 10viii25), in no particular order yet (but see an alphabetical list):

algorithm
cyber-
affordance
macramé
mashup
explication
parse
signification
parlance
denote
verisimilitude
Serendipity
portentous
salience
apotheosis
Mind
Image
curate (v.)
Imagination
Systems
meta-
hyper-
landscape
wetware
Ecology
vernacular
meme
Culture
process (n.)
map (v. and n.)
Development
infrastructure
creativity
ineffable
bellwether
Zeitgeist
(con)juncture
nexus/nexial
bricolage
Surreal
Pattern
Story
Narrative
lexicon
trajectory
synoptic
dynamic
paradigm
biblio
region
anthro-
... (there will be more) ...

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I thought of several that seem foundational, learned quite literally at my mother's knee,
but in lifelong unfolding, STILL being actively explored
for ...signification.

Pattern
Form
Meaning
Semantics.
Even cyber- had its origins with CAB

It's interesting that none of her 'spiritual' lexicon stuck with me.

Each labels a domain of meaning and significance that I think of as especially relevant to how I see (understand, apprehend) the world through which I've been moving all my life. Some are dense containers of Meaning, some are aperçus...