gezmek: to tour, to travel, to itinerate, to roam, to wander
#gezmeking started as a joke I made amongst Fulbright ETAs, but personally evolved into a useful way to articulate what is both a process and a way of understanding. It is a mode of knowledge acquisition attuned to serendipity and discovery.
A Turkish aphorism states, “cok gezen cok bilir.” I like to interpret this phrase to mean, “with wanderings come knowledge.”
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