A Secant Query

Between Garden and Stream

Wherein I word what might be...

Between Garden and Stream

currently tending to: My Person + Their Needs by Me

It Might Look Like This

There's this particular kind of writing, where each page has 5-7kb of text; maybe they conclude with some question or list of questions. Each of the pages are broken into three to five subheadings. It's sounding like documentation.

But it's reflections. Wall art, personal words that don't go anywhere; loop back on themself, link to a subheading in another post. Sometimes public, sometimes just a page and a heading - no body text, like a draft, but its published. Like those places where the street opens to turn in, but no road continues on in that direction.

Sometimes the other part linked to picks up where the part would go in deeper, might you like it to: "but do feel invited to check it out now - here are the coordinates" (in a sense). like footnotes, Maybe, if they weren't pointing to a subsection of another heading of the work, I'd call them footnotes. But they point to entries in the work sharing the same index as them. Or, I don't know the words for any of this.

Proper Words Here

I'm not sure how I might illustrate linking to another page. I'm sure  secant.bearblog.dev  is fine. So what is currently being experienced might live at  https://secant.bearblog.dev/garden-stream#proper-words-here  . And say there's something about food going on in the text at this point, so it might bring up jerky from cows that don't die and don't shit, maybe mushroom jerky or something. And so there's that part exemplified. But now there's five other paragraphs to write and some questions to ask at the end and it's kind of difficult.

Like, remember when I was up here and wondering about what this style of linking to various stuff under the same system is the proper term "person" might be? Remember when It felt like there was a question it was working toward? It felt so fresh and hopeful, and now it's kind of dour (in a sense). Not that it won't get a second wind - It'll totally get one. That's practically the name of the last heading (unless the questions heading counts as a heading).

I mean, other headings can happen. Only, this heading is struggling to carry the conversation, so maybe there isn't much going on. Except the prediction that the heading title will be second wind is itself part of the original question. I was hoping to find a way to describe it - that part that's all:

like a draft, but published, feeling like those places where the street opens to turn in, but no road continues on in that direction.

That part was building something toward that part of the question. As the style invites, it "self-sows" (how asteracea family might recognize the concept) - that sort of thing.

A Second Wind

I know this part is supposed to have picked up on a topic. That self-sowing aspect, or some other aspect of the system (there's that word again). Well, so. I'm not looking for it to be called a system.

I'm looking for it to have a term so I might find it and explore it. Just calling it a system or a project doesn't feel like I am finding things that fall into this process. So I think the question is less looking for a word to call it, and more asking might there be a term to search and find it and explore other angles in it.

Not that it has to have one name or that I don't want to here all the names - I totally want to hear all the names . Only, now I have so many more things to write. I have no idea what I might like, let alone what I'd write about on a page austensibly about it. Not that overwhelm's a bad thing, only, this was just trying to be a simple question. And now look at it. It's a complete mess. A total catastrophy. There's no way this is helpful.

And even if it is, look how much effort it took just to ask what I'm talking about. I'm exhausted. The whole place is a mess. And I still don't have a word for what this is.

looks at the words that the next heading will have

Well... at least I have you, future-me. You're always so patient. Just picking up whatever this is. You have the word now - whatever it is. I hope you're having a wonderful time, enjoying all the places. Going where I didn't have the words and so much is immediately clear.

So Many Questions