I’m **Cameron Carrick**—a writer, community builder, facilitator, and storyteller based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This site is my digital hearth: a place for long-form thinking, living questions, creative work, and the kinds of conversations that don’t fit neatly into social media boxes. Here you’ll find: - Essays on **work, leadership, grief, meaning, and belonging** - Reflections on **song, story, myth, and oral tradition** - Longform literary writing and criticism - Notes from the edges of **community practice and inner work** Much of what I do lives at the crossroads of: **meaning-making, creative practice, emotional honesty, and communal care.** This is a place for people who are curious about what it means to be human—and who sense that the old stories about success, leadership, and productivity are no longer enough. --- ## What I’m Working With If you’d like to orient yourself, these pages offer good entry points: - **[[My training and teachers]]** – The traditions, mentors, and lineages that shaped my work - **[[Working with organizations]]** – My approach to culture, leadership, and collective change - **[[What is community grief tending?|Grief Work]]** – Community grief tending, ritual, and emotional ecology - **[[Coaching]]** – 1:1 accompaniment for leaders, creatives, and people in transition --- ## How to Use This Site You don’t need to read this in order. Think of it like wandering through a library, a notebook, and a long kitchen-table conversation at once. Some pieces are polished essays. Others are working notes. Some are meant to be lived with slowly. You might start with: - **Community songs & singing** – on voice, belonging, and oral tradition - **Don Quixote & literary criticism** – stories about stories - **Longform essays** – on work, death, beauty, and contradiction - **Poetry** – when prose isn’t enough Follow what pulls on you. --- ## A Personal Note I believe: - That **grief belongs in community** - That **work should not cost us our souls** - That **story is one of our oldest survival technologies** - That **singing together still matters** - And that **most of what is most important cannot be optimized** This website is not a brand funnel. It’s a living body of work. If something you read here stays with you, changes how you see, or gives language to something you hadn’t yet named—that’s enough. --- ## A note on "analytics" This site runs without analytics, cookies, or tracking. If something here served you, you can [tell me](https://cameroncarrick.notion.site/cbee7495a3c4470f885fbba35db2dbcd?pvs=105).