Evolution of pages & life

Two web sites that I'm associated with are evolving significantly now: the Euglena Academy site & this one.

First - and most importantly - last evening, we accomplished a major update to the Euglena Academy web site. We've added a full "About Us" section describing the academy's mission, history, what we offer, our Eugene studio, a course catalog, and more. These were added to existing pages about winter courses and the Adaptability Project.

The academy site will continue to grow in coming weeks and months. We're pretty excited about it, and, yeah, even a little proud. Please check it out. We've come a long way, baby.

Second, as a result of those academy site updates, I'm making some significant changes to this blog. Note that even though the URL remained unchanged, I've renamed it from "Euglena Blog" to "Alder Mind". (And even the new name is subject to change - like everything else on this blog.)

But the main point is,
I renamed this blog to be clear
about what it is & what it is not.
Towards that end, I've updated
the info in the right column --->,
including this description of
the purpose of this blog:

Alder's Mind is ... my - Alder Fuller - blog about life - personal & professional : essays, opinions, rants, poetry, personal links & other stuff. As I often say, if you don't tell your own story, someone else will, & you may not like their version.

Note: this blog is not a component of the Euglena Academy web site, but an independent page. The board & advisers of the academy do not necessarily agree with or support perspectives presented on this blog (that's not my call), nor do my posts necessarily fully reflect academy perspectives & values (even given a substantial overlap).

Posts here are not static,
but - like life & reality -
evolve over time ...
some disappear.

I'm making this clarification because, for a while, until we launched the new academy pages last fall, this blog temporarily became one of the main conduits through which information about the academy, including my courses, was disseminated. Some came to think of it as "the" academy site. It never was, nor was it intended to be.

With the new academy site launched, this one can return to that for which it was intended: a place for me to share my thoughts openly in multiple modes with any one who cares.
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So, with that said, I predict that 2010 is going to rock harder than any year since the turn of the century. I'm planning to do my share - maybe even more than my share - to facilitate that on this blog, on the academy site, my Facebook page, & from my tweet perch in that little electronic medium called Twitter - life in 140 character tweets.

Finally, one more note. Love has re-entered my life for the first time in a long time. This isn't just love, but a different kind of love & relationship, an opportunity to explore the very meanings of love, relationship & life.

I'm reminded once again how beautiful love is,
& how love & life are so closely related.

Maybe soon, I'll write about those here.
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2010 has begun.
Buckle up, bebes.

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