seanessay.com Note: my sister lives in cattle country too, but in another time zone, “in the caribou,” in British Columbia. I could be hopping mad right now. Or I could let out all my air, sinking into depression, disgust and saying, “What’s the use?” I’d rather be mad. I was driving home a half hour […]
Struggling In College Again
seanessay.com There were 182 helpful blog comments after a smart, well-liked college kid, whose blog I follow, reported failing university, big time, repeatedly. None of the comments advised on emotional or mental health, no, not after the first comment was from the girl’s father to discouraged such advice, saying she was getting adequate counselling already. […]
Running With Robots and Volunteers
seanessay.com That British guy who wrote about some tragic young clones (Now a movie with Kiera Knightly and Carey Mulligan, called Never Let Me Go) has a new book out, worth the hardcover price, called Klara and the Sun. Klara is an Artificial Friend. It was not his book that inspired my old Free Fall […]
Traveling to Meet the People
seanessay.com Down the rabbit hole, writing at my Free Fall Friday group. Prompt- Don’t be that person. Some people use cocaine, “recreationally,” yet never gaze into the looking glass and say, “I’m a criminal.” Some men, while in debt to other people, never look in the mirror to say “I”m a debtor,” instead continuing to […]
Olympic Dreams Drifting and Collapsing
seanessay.com Values? The Olympics? Fixing the Games? As with the meaning of “education,” or “Christmas,” if we snooze on pondering the meaning of the Olympics then we end up drifting over to the default of other people’s values. Then we lose, as many other minds are “imprisoned” from having known almost only professional sports, or […]
Olympic Dreams Gone With the Bigots
At the Tokyo Olympics, according to a CBC radio documentary, women athletes were discriminated against. Must history repeat? Can we learn? My younger self wrote about “equal rights” in my old blog, so here are patches of old essays. I can never forget her. She was a pretty biathlete who wanted to be an Olympian. […]