the Lifebox
(from 28viii25, updated 17i26)

(I draw upon Rudy Rucker's formulation of 'lifebox')

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So what is this. or what does it aspire to become? A personal Archive. A stab at Legacy. A grand Project.... I wrote this in the Narrative: (January 2022):

(Rucker's original description) ...surely pointed me in the direction of building a personal manifestation as a hypertext, sculpting material (and immaterial) into a sort of auto-biography, organizing and improving accessibility (and thus interconnection) among memories and exemplars and realia, in a Borgesian space, fractal in that the detail appears as you look into it, and seems to go on and on.

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The architectonics and organization of the Lifebox are works in progress, the various galleries subject to rearrangement. A visit to the Lifebox should be like wandering in a museum: one can't see EVERYTHING in a single visit, and the labyrinthine layout is daunting to navigate. One's energies begin to flag... one promises self to return ...someday.

And meanwhile the curators have all sorts of wonders in storage spaces and arrayed on backstage workbenches... their work continues, joyously.

I contrived a year-end Summary of 2025

... in January 2026 I set out to explore the incoming as an essential element

Here's how Firefox parsed my version of the lifebox in late December 2025:

[not too bad as a summary]

and here's how I mapped the constituents of my lifebox in December 2025:

**Essentials**

of Space and Time
oook blog
vital cartoons
a garden (swamp? slough? forest?) of quotations
MYKeywords
curiosa
tracking with closeups

**Projects In Process**

Musics
Plantae
lexicon
photography

**writings**

Convivium (2018-2024)
quinquennial Class Reports
yellow pads
other media
boooooks

**oook.info distributary**

Washington & Lee years (1992-2005)
2005 onward to today

**Curator's Notes To Self**

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The Lifebox is a hypertext, a landscape of links,
a glorious macramé of interlinked threads.
It's meant to be explored, wandered in, enjoyed;
and it's an invitation to converse,
a kitty kitty.

For me it's a ongoing summary of a lot of years
(35 since we left Nova Scotia, 20+ since I retired and we moved to Maine)
...of which I continue to try to make sense.

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