seanessay.com I found a book… By Irshad Manji Don’t Label Me subtitled How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars Saint Martin’s Griffin, New York, 2019 I get a kick out of Irshad Manji. As a young lady she routinely used to come home, turn on her e-mail, and delete that day’s death threats. […]
Managing Leisure and Distraction
seanessay.com Preface I told Derek Sivers that I don’t hold anything against him that he said verbally during his podcast interviews. (link) I’ve never been interviewed myself, but if I was on a podcast? With a friend? Then surely I could say stuff I don’t mean. I might exaggerate, maybe to make a point, maybe […]
Poetry Matters
seanessay.com If articles on humour in business magazines are written humorously, (they all are) then I guess an essay called Poetry Matters should be written poetically. Ya, but I’m only human, and my deadline is tonight—after I’ve done some socializing, including (“but not limited to” interjects my panicky lawyer) being outside on lawn chairs with […]
Smug, not Smug
seanessay.com Introduction: As teens, we were so heavily serious about ourselves, so judgemental about other people’s choice of music. As an adult, I can lightly step to one side and laugh at myself. Today I wrote to a successful musician, Derek Sivers, after his podcast interview. (link) Dear Derek, Greetings from the Canadian prairie. In […]
Self Improvement, Other Improvement
seanessay.com Prologue “God bless the wounded healer.” A visiting pastor, at Friday Free Fall writing, who asked me if I was a pastor too. As we were leaving, two churchgoers told me I have the demeanour of a pastor. Introduction A European writer, Alice Miller, noted that in WWII each of the European fascist and […]
Distractions from Fear
seanessay.com Dear Derek, (link) Greetings from the Great Plains. When you were asked why your famous successful peers didn’t give in to distractions, you said they stayed active because of “holding themselves in high regard.” To me, the flip side of that is not “normal regard,” it’s “low self esteem.” Commentary What society doesn’t talk […]