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, in alphabetical order and updated to 15ix25:

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

... (there will be more) ...

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Several of these 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.