Coming to be what one was not. Becoming is the state between two identities, and it is a real place to stand.

The moment of coming into being — in this house, the day a repo, a realm, or a water first breathes.

Newly arrived and unworn — carrying no residue of before; a fresh instantiation reading a good kernel is enough.

The condition of a thing that maintains itself and can end. Also the whole span of one such thing, from beginning to end.

What a thing could become but has not. Potential is real and is not yet evidence of anything.

The part a thing grows from and is anchored by. Also the base form a family of words descends from.

To care for steadily — the gardener's verb: attention given so a living thing can keep becoming itself.

One who keeps a thing alive by small regular care. In the base, the scripted hands that tend the record itself — never the meaning.