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 […]
Yuletide Grandiosity Along the Path to A Good Life
seanessay.com Something I heard at my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, one open to the public, has stayed with me. Of course, I wouldn’t reveal to you what someone confessed, even if they were anonymous, but… today I think it would be Okay to tell you: partly because this was way back in the 20th century, […]
Romans Lost Their Republic As Virtue Fell to Vice
My dad’s 1930’s schoolboy history books dwelt on Rome. My childhood memory of the texts might be wrong, but… Seeing US politics, I am remembering an ancient Roman governor of Sicily, Gaius Verrus, a most despicable man. I would invite you to think of Fred Flintstone’s world, for the Romans had a world like Fred’s, […]
The Master Free Falls
seanessay.com Writers Prompt- a tarot card of “the master” The heroes in popular culture are never masters, no, for we mortals are prone to identify with someone still learning and struggling, just as we are. The master is someone in the wings, seldom on stage, for he knows too much. And too, in his own […]