seanessay.com …that many people will find shocking. If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial… Paul Graham Putting Ideas Into Words November […]
Mayor Sends Letter of Recognition for Disability Workers
From the OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, THE CITY OF CALGARY Letter of Recognition Community Disability Support Workers are essential to the lives of people with disabilities. Many of the individuals they support have significant and multiple disabilities, requiring partial to total assistance with all aspects of daily lining. From personal care responsibilities such as cooking, […]
Children’s Annuals Are A Golden Part of Childhood
seanessay.com My Canadian boyhood was enriched by reading various children’s annuals (yearly) from Britain. Such a privilege. Recently I asked around, and found that few fellow Canadians had read them. Perhaps they were only available in bookstores: I suspect Mum bought them so we could know our British Heritage. My favourites were the annuals for […]
A US Midwest Dialogue in a Time of Trump
seanessay.com …As a tumbleweed is blowing in the wind… Standing in the doorway of a midwest cafe, hesitating, Archie called over to where Doctor Raj was drinking coffee. “May I sit? Raj said, “Yes. What a nice coincidence.” “Red Water’s a small town. I knew you’d be here, buckaroo.” “After seeing patients all day, I […]
Man on Mars, Duck on Prairie
seanessay.com Well howdy there, Web surfers. No saving the world today; I’m merely pasting in old stuff from rapid-write Free Fall Fridays. Writing Prompt dwellers One of my joys in life is being a prairie dweller. Do you know what that means? In the winter, long underwear is sexy. In the summer, a back pack […]
Easy Free Fall
seanessay.com By “easy” I mean today’s free fall writing is not the stuff to make one concentrate. … … Writing Prompt- blue Have you been to the blue, blue sea I sail in my imagination, as I sip my tea My tea is by a lake, in the middle of the prairie A rather serious […]