seanessay.com View from Gail’sBlog Identification, with songsStinging Afterthoughts View I’m having light food and coffee at a steel-topped long table at Gail’s. Her cafe is affordable, although it’s within easy walking distance of the Thames river in the middle of town. While much of Central London has buildings of grey stone with high carvings, here, […]
London With Metaphor, Without Light
seanessay.com “To me, poetry and prayer walk hand in hand” Jericho Brown I ask you: What if I traveled like a poet, seeing by metaphor, noticing what I notice? Maybe I would notice that, while walking around today, I didn’t “ooh and awe” over buildings, and that it helped when I stopped and looked at […]
What Secrets Are We Not Seeing?
seanessay.com I recently read how some cultures don’t have words for certain colours, and can’t perceive those colours. I guess it’s like how folks looking through microscopes at cells didn’t see that little dot of a nucleus, not until after someone wrote about it in a magazine. Even then, not everyone included the dot in […]
New Year, New Resolution to Travel
seanessay.com “…Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life…” Samual Johnson January, they say, is when people make a resolution to travel. If so, dear reader, I suggest London. I can’t offer a reasonable bird’s eye view as a travel agent can, but I may offer a few snapshots from […]
In a Grim and Dreadful Prairie Clipper
My plan was to go straight home. Didn’t happen. From my car radio: “DON’T go out if you can avoid it! Accidents everywhere. The QE II highway is closed.” The morning started off fine. The City of Calgary has no nearby suburbs with separate mayors. Instead, this city on the plain keeps expanding. To meet […]