A collection of 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]
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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 all could/should spawn Essays in the Montaigne model; and some are sudden revelations/realizations of deeper significance.
MY Keywords are examples/instances whose internal workings (meanings, connections to other words and ideas, nuances, developmental histories) seem to me essential in my own Story of what I do, what I've done, wehre my curiosities have taken me. Many of those listed below seem pivot points. bearings in my own succession of focuses of interest and exploration.
Below I list provisional candidates and set out to explore their semantic spaces, but the work of turning the list into a detailed mapping of the territory of personal significance is a challenging project, here updated to 26ix25:
affordance
algorithm
anthropo-
apotheosis
bellwether
biblio-
bricolage
creativity
Culture
curate
cyber-
denote
Development
dynamic
Ecology
explication
Form
hyper-
Image
Imagination
ineffable
infrastructure
(con)juncture
landscape
lexicon
macramé
map (v. and n.)
mashup
Meaning
meme
meta-
Mind
Narrative
nexus/nexial
paradigm
parlance
parse
Pattern
portentous
process
region
salience
Semantics
Serendipity
signification
Story
Surreal
synoptic
Systems
trajectory
verisimilitude
vernacular
wetware
Zeitgeist