seanessay.com Dear Diary: I hate to admit this, but this morning I was “doubling down.” I put “d d” into my vocabulary recently, when a fellow told his young nieces, “Don’t get any tattoos.” He warned that after you make the mistake of getting the first “tat” you “double down” and get a second one, […]
When I am a Senior Citizen I Will…
seanessay.com When I am old, besides wearing purple, I will… do what? Business sage Peter Drucker recommended doing volunteer work, but he also advised: If you don’t volunteer while you are working, you will have trouble getting into doing so when you are retired. Some Irish, God bless them, have come up with a short […]
Relating Across the Rainbow of Time
seanessay.com Is there a felt need to be able to talk across time, to people of other generations? Maybe not, because maybe people think it’s so hopeless they suppress any spark of hope. “I don’t care to talk to young punks.” Like how, before women’s liberation gave hope, we suppressed sparks of outrage at sexism. […]
Canadian Views Americans, their King and Camels
seanessay.com Some of my best friends are Yankees, but you’ve got to admit: Yanks can describe something, with a perfectly straight face, as “…being downright unAmerican.” Nobody up here can say, “UnCanadian”—not without sounding sheepish. A confident man in Santa Fe once said, “No self respecting New Mexican wants to be caught sounding like a […]
Fools Playing With Steel Picks and Shovels
seanessay.com Truth comes out when one is flowing, free falling, like doing the Morning Pages of Julia Cameron. Today’s free fall writing, mind you, is not planned or structured. How can it be, when I am speed-writing as I go along? Writing Prompt- the fool on the hill I used to sing “the fool on […]
Some Students Agree With Apartheid
seanessay.com Headnote: Last week I linked to a memoir about women being segregated… You surely remember, directly or through history, when much of the world was against “apartheid,” the legal rigid separation of Black and White in the state of South Africa. In theory, in those years, you could have said people with a vested […]