A new world is emerging

I am ready for some changes around here

Guys. I have reached a cross road.

I feel like I want to switch gears on my Autumn Diaries blog. Stop writing mostly about weight loss because, honestly, I am kinda done talking about it. Not necessarily doing it, despite my struggles I still want and need to lose a good amount of weight, but I am a bit tired of my own voice in this realm. And perhaps that is even what I need, do it more quietly and in private, rather than regurgitate the same cycle over and over again in such a public space. I do believe that I am going to crack this and that I will find my path to a lighter body and better health, but I no longer feel that it is my calling to continue sharing this particular journey.

Instead I want to write more about… Human Design, especially for us Projectors, mid/late life, AI (fascinating, scary and inevitable), digital addiction, and how to stay connected to the ‘real’ world, especially nature and other humans. I would even love to bring more musings on my Calm Business philosophy over into this space. As a woman living in her autumn years it’s all kind of meshing together and percolating inside of me, wanting to come out more and be heard.

Much of this change of direction was triggered by a webinar I hosted on the subject of AI. Talk about AI is everywhere right now and it’s more than just a fad (of which there are many on the internet) - the genie is out of the bottle and we’re not ready for it but no-one can put it back in. There is a lot of uncertainty but one thing is for sure: AI is here to stay and we are only at the beginning of its unprecedented impact on our lives, and we are going to have to learn to co-exist.

My biggest take-away from the webinar was what my co-host Kate summarized at the end: AI is a machine and always will be, let’s never forget our humanity in all of this. Then I also read this by my friend Jo Hanlon-Moores and she pretty much summed it up for me:

More human. More organic. More alive (machines aren’t, they’re just plugged in). More down-in-the-dirt physical.

Which is why, for instance, I can’t wait to dig my hands into the soil in my garden and start growing vegetables, herbs and flowers - all of whom have no idea that AI exists, they are blissfully unaware of any of this as they spread their roots and lift their heads towards the sun. Even my cat has no idea and I don’t know why but I take a strange comfort in that.

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So there we are. If you were only here for the weight loss musings and are not into any of this, then I completely understand and thank you for following along so far! If you decide to stay, thank you as well, and I’m glad we’ll continue to travel on this path together.

Have a lovely weekend,

Kerstin xo