Passionate Meanderings

You may wonder what "Passionate Meanderings" is about. The phrase itself is suggestive of passionately roaming around or exploring that most, if not all, of us have done. We have wandered aimlessly or with some intent through forests, in deserts, along shorelines, or even in some sort of boat on lakes. We may have meandered through cities and towns around the world. However, we probably spent considerable time meandering through various memories and ideas. Such meanderings can be exhilarating and inspiring. They almost always stimulate our emotions, curiosity, and maybe even inquiry. We may have even stumbled into rabbit-holes of extraordinary learning and insight. Although in the virtual worlds of the Internet, we can't go on physical meanderings together, but we can do so on our own or with local friends. And, here on Passionate Meanderings, we can join together and go on mental meanderings with a passion for playful exploring, inquiring, and learning.

As we start on this passionate meandering adventure, a few of the founding passionate meanderers will share some of our thoughts about a wide, but intricately intertwined and interdependent issues, themes, and ideas. Please explore, comment, and participate in our members-only forum. Other ways of participating may arise as we continue to meander...

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OVERVIEW OF THIS WEBSITE

The term "meander" captures a sense of wandering about in different contexts, which could be cities, forests, meadows, farmland, ocean coastlines, or even in bodies of water while swimming or in a boat. However, many exciting adventures occur while meandering in our minds. In both the physical and mental senses, meandering can involve passions for exploring, playing, investigating, and finding ways to express one's understandings, insights, and questions. Passionate Meanderings has been created to bring together a group of "passionate meanderers" to share their ideas through a variety of different styles and genres.

Much of this work is based in seeing our living world as complex living systems, with their various relationships, interdependencies, paradoxes, issues, but always grounded in the "stuff" that characterizes the life or living at its most fundamental levels. Nora Bateson refers to this "stuff" as Warm Data. Others have referred to this as some sort of life force. But, whatever you may call it, it is not a set of predictable, linear, mechanical, "life-less" processes.

We are exploring our world from these perspectives; playing with these ideas; examining some of the major issues we're facing; as well as, meandering with some sense of wonder and awe at the magnificence of life in all its forms.

NAVIGATING THIS SITE

The top header menu bar will take you to the major sections. Some sections have thematic or other subsections that may be organized by an author's particular set of pages, by a theme or topic to which multiple authors contribute, or by some other organizational scheme. If you are interested in a particular author's articles, you can go to that authors "Author Page," which can be found under "Our Authors and Contributors," in the header menu bar. You also can do a search for that author in the search box near the top of the right sidebar. You can use this Search box to search for topics, as well. Note that clicking on a category or tag will only show you items in the Blog. However, you can use the category or tag word to search anywhere on the site, by copying and pasting or just typing the word into the search box.

OR, click on "Site Map" here or in the top-bar menu to see a list of all pages and posts.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED...

This website is free to browse through and read and view any videos that may appear here. Like all endeavors in our current time, hosting this website involves costs. And, for those of us who produce the content, it takes time and effort, for which it would be kind of you, our readers, to pitch in even very modest of amounts of money to support this work.

Although anyone can enter comments in the "Comments" boxes at the bottom of every page, we also offer a forum where readers can engage in more in-depth conversations and even branch out into new directions. To do this, we ask for a commitment to support this site by becoming a member for $1.00 a month ($12/year) or more, if you wish to do so. Click on the Join button on the upper right side of any page. If you wish to just donate once or once in a while, please click on the Donate button. If you'd like to be on a list for occasional news, click on the Subscribe button to enter your email address. Subscribing is available to anyone, member or not.

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