What a whirlwind
month I have had! As I write this I am sitting in a small café in the tiny town
of Morwell in rural Victoria, Australia, about two hours from Melbourne by car
or train. I arrived here just yesterday after flying back from Hong Kong. Prior
to that I spent three days in China and a month in Thailand.
So what
am I doing here? The short answer is that I am staying with my younger brother
till I get settled. And getting settled may take some time! There are no more
than 5000 people in this town, I’d estimate. It makes a huge contrast to the
hustle and bustle of Hong Kong, where I lived for the past eight years.
My plan
is to stay in Australia. Maybe. It depends on what opportunities open up – here
or elsewhere.
Inevitably
during big changes in life, many things change. Much has to pass away in order
for the new to arrive. And a few things you just have to kill off!
So now
is the time to announce that I will be killing off this blog (and parts of the old me), and also my
website www.mindfutures.com. Looking
at that site, it appears to be what a futurist’s site would have looked like 15
years ago – the blog of a futurist stuck in the past! The other problem is that
I have too many sites and my stuff is scattered all over the net on about seven
different domains. So…
I am
opening a new all-inclusive site - www.mind-futures.com
- where everything will come together in one convenient and exciting place.
The new site will include a blog very similar to this one. It should be up by the end
of the week. Mind-futures.com will use a wordpress theme, so it will be far
more interactive and dynamic than my old site and this blog. It will be able to
support a much greater range of media, including video and audio.
I wear
a few different hats: futurist, mystic, academic, writer, educator... So there
will be different parts of the new site for all these things. I am also going
to include a “news” section, where I will post links to news and media stories
related to Deep Futures – all the things that I am interested in. Of course I
am hoping that it will appeal to a wider audience than this blog’s, and especially
to my old mindfutures site, which was really just a place where I put up all my
research papers.
I look
forward to seeing everyone on www.mind-futures.com!
Blessings,
Marcus
