Boh Morel
The man behind the mark.
Boh Morel is the writing name of an Australian mechanical engineer, farmer, father of four, former kiteboarding school operator, and yoga teacher. Fifty-three years on the planet at the time of writing. Eighteen years in oil and gas. Grew up in Sale, Victoria, with family connections to Murray River country. Lives and works around Newcastle, NSW.
The Boh Morel name covers the intellectual work — physics, history, religion, politics, the writing that goes against the grain. The engineering work runs under his given name. Same person, two streams, kept distinct so neither contaminates the other.
What lives here
This site is a personal archive: posts as they are thought, memos as they are written, photos as they are taken, books and films and links as they are found worth recording. Four categories cover the long-form work — Life & Science, Religion, History, Politics — with a life timeline running underneath all of it.
Why "Morel's Mark"
Margie Samuels saw it on old pewter — a maker's mark, stamped on every piece, signifying the craftsman stood behind the work. She put it on the Maker's Mark bourbon bottle. Forrest Mars put a small "m" on every M&M for the same reason. The pattern is simple: the maker signs the work, takes accountability, no hiding.
That is what this site is. Everything signed. Nothing anonymous. The maker's mark.
Companion sites
- multimodalcorridors.com — The engineering work: SBC, the patent family, the national infrastructure vision.
- moralmajority.com.au — The party platform and the political campaign.
- modernmovement.com.au — The strategic / public commentary arm.
Contact
The best way to reach Boh Morel is through the channels listed on the companion sites. This site is for thinking out loud; the others are for getting things done.