seanessay.com Strange how a person can significantly influence your life—and then that person is gone. For a buddy in the reserves, training in a mountain monsoon rainforest with members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, his mentor was a paratrooper who guided him through the worst. He told me they even had to sleep on sloping […]
A Reasoned Prediction by a Canadian on Trump being Elected
seanessay.com Here’s my reasoned Trump prediction, but first: I’ve been publicly wrong before, as regarding, for example, something as important as Russia versus Ukraine. I realize there’s a different law for rich and poor: No way could anybody I know get as many criminal court delays as Trump is getting. I realize, from the essays […]
Time Flies in Free Fall to the Ground
A raven on a skull inspired the writing prompt of Tempus Fugit, the ground was fifteen minutes away It was a death camp survivor, Victor Frankel, who knew the value of time. He had to live day to day, of course, to survive the horror. And he found that all of the survivors, as many […]
Many People Procrastinate on Projects
seanessay.com Whenever I procrastinate, I remember Dirty Harry saying, “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” Back in the days of manual typewriters, during my early twenties, I bought a cute little portable, complete with carrying handle. The machine was so small the letter O doubled as the zero. I also bought a nice glossy Teach […]
Turning to See By Metaphor
seanessay.com “If the Russians do atomic testing above ground people stay silent, if we do so in a cavern they protest!” an idealist in Camelot, circa 1960 (from memory) … Using fiction and Metaphors of the past one may strive to discern the today of the Near East and Ukraine. Discern, yes, because writers of […]
Words for My Nice Nazi Neighbours
seanessay.com “Words build your world” a man at a party. … I respect Sir Winston Churchill, remembered as the man who warned. Remembered by me as the man who distrusted the word appease. He could see better than most, maybe because he valued words more than most. For example, during the Allied advance up Italian mountains, […]