Welcome
Hello and thank you for visiting.
This is a home for eclectic conversations: essays on topics of interest, observations on things, fiction and creative non-fiction excerpts, poetry, and even some photographs.
I confess my postings are a tad sporadic, done as the spirit moves me. Lately (too) many of them have been political because of the calamity we find ourselves in, at least in the U.S.A.
Politics is not life, and life is not politics — but I am concerned about climate change and our destruction of the environment, more for our fellow species on the planet, and have written about that. I am angry about American gun violence and the refusal of Americans to address it. I can’t say that my estimation of humanity has improved by observing human behaviour since the onset of the Covid pandemic. And I am deeply dismayed by the election of a demagogue and the instillation of the cruel autocracy in America by the Project 2025 cabal – led by that indecent fraudster and promoter of hatred.
I admit that it saddens me greatly that we have come to this in 2025. In my darker moments, it feels like my life work and ambitions in teaching and community service have been in vain. It is a “time of ashes” as the poet Robert Bly would call it.
But enough – we are not defeated! We will fight back and are doing so. The darkness will not be allowed to prevail. And, in the realm of politics, I take heart from the recent defeat of Canada’s home-grown populist Joker, by a sensible and decent prime minister.
In the meantime, I also take solace in the beauty of our planet and the holiness and joy of our spring days. I am grateful to be this ripe age, still here and upright – still able to “stand up and be counted” as dear old Dad would say. And I am grateful for all the other apparently inexhaustible gifts I continue to receive.
If interested, please see my photography site at www.peterscottcameron.com. I hope that you enjoy the galleries there. I have reduced the size of the site, and am posting thematic galleries of 50+ pictures that will change from time-to-time. Currently, the gallery is Portraits, In Black and White.
The woolly sheep pictured here live at the Merck Forest and Farmland Center, just inside the Vermont border.
All writing and all pictures, unless otherwise stated, are: copyright © Peter Scott Cameron, 2020 — 2025.
Take care and be well,
PSC. June 2, 2025.
