seanessay.com This week I mentioned “kind,” and this month I mentioned my Toastmasters club, a club “for public speaking and leadership.” One night, as usual, my club meeting opened with a brief “introduction question.” The chairman asked us to “Please say your name and What are you known for?” In his case, he was known […]
Google, Culture and Kindness
seanessay.com A blog I have bookmarked, by celebrity-teacher Seth Godin, this week (Nov 22-23) has a short post on kindness, right below a short post on google. Seth’s trademark is short posts. The kindness post graphed how the word “kind” has been used in books, over the past 200 years, far, far more often than […]
Gratitude and Mars
seanessay.com In the real world, a friend of mine has escaped a very stressful life among relatives. How bad? When some one from her old house came visiting, the dog stayed right with her, shaking, the whole time. That poor dog! Now my friend and her dog have a life of far less stress. I […]
Stupid Rich People’s Party
seanessay.com I got invited to a party! Oh boy! Well, not just me, everyone in the Advanced Toastmasters club, where I had been a guest a couple times, was invited. But after that stupid party, I never went back to that club… The girl with the harp from last week’s post, Eily, told me she […]
Strange Concert at the Lantern
seanessay.com On a deeply frozen and silent prairie night, in an older maze within the city, I locate the Lantern Church. A little paper sign on the door says, “Pull the handle down hard.” I manage the little handle and step inside. Smiling people take my ticket, and I walk down, down past rows of […]
Delighted By Design
seanessay.com One day, walking down the hall by our receptionist, I cheerfully announced, “If ever I’m a time traveler stuck in the past, I will make some money by inventing the paper clip…” Given that there aren’t any accidental time portals in my neighbourhood, I have no idea why I would be worried about making […]