A Personal Glossary

Some people make maps of their consciousness and personality. I've chosen instead to make a glossary describing terms and concepts important to me. For another glossary, see Topophilia.

car

a drug, not unlike speed; concrete, distancing; death. See also walk.

city

a place full of people; human nature & wilderness; a (permanent) gathering of the tribes; a deposit of culture. See also home.

home

a settlement, familiar & repeated; a place or return; a place of stored memories. See also city.

nomad

one who moves; to have the philosophy that staying put as a requirement or norm leads to mental danger & damage; my state and my people. See also travel,

settle

to stay put, perhaps temporarily; to give up the road, even for a moment. See also city, home.

stuff

the material collection & detritus of life; a noose; connections to memories; an intercourse with the world.

travel

a quickening away and towawrds; an escap(ad)e from or to, within or without, or onwards. See also car, walk, wander.

wander

to go to and fro, seemingly aimlessly, but in fact to find the truth and the wonder. See also wander, nomad.

walk

to explore gently and in good time; to carry oneself with oneself. See also wander.