I have started a Substack! Dedicated to the conditions, circumstances and methods of engaging with uncertainty.

https://thisisuncertain.substack.com/

Will experiment/explore with this for a while, see what happens. Already have a few followers; not really watching that metric, but it is nice nonetheless. I am reconciled to screaming into the void on all my channels, and even one reader is enough to make it all worthwhile. In truth, I am happy just to write as its own reward.

The photograph below was taken on site recently in regional New South Wales - kind of looks like a piece of 20th Century modern art. Seems to gel visually with the topic of uncertainty. Kind of like an Antoni Tapies, or similar. OK maybe that’s a stretch.

I have said goodbye and good riddance to both 2022 and 2023. It’s becoming a ritual incantation: it’s a new year, farewell and thanks for nothing to the exiting annus horribilis. I hope I don’t feel compelled to jettison 2024 at the next New Year’s Eve. Time will tell. Just keep smiling.

I am relaxing in the heat, it is cool inside but very hot outside today. A high fire danger alert has been declared for many parts of my home State of Victoria. Climate change in action.