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| Pedro Meyer - 1 December 2025 - Coyoacán, México |
Today I had a longish chat on the phone with George Bowering, Canada’s first Poet Laureate. It is not only enough for him to be a poet as he wrote the lyrics Eat Your Brain for a proto punk band Gary Cramer and the Works. Currently the man who was 90 on December 1st is finishing his latest book A Barefoot Gringo. Bowering speaks decent Spanish and loves Mexico.
I wrote about Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer who is 91 a few days ago in this blog. I went to Mexico on December 1st just to photograph him.
These two men have inspired me not to give up my enthusiasm for taking photographs, scanning my plants and writing my blogs (6747 to date). For a while I thought that living with my two cats, feeding them, taking Niño for a walk was enough to distract me for the loss of my Rosemary five years ago. It simply was not enough. My new enthusiasm generated by the influence of these two men will help a tad. I think about the fact that I am waiting to die.
Perhaps I will not think about that as much now.
