seanessay.com If old age means wisdom, well, no it doesn’t. And I can tell you so, political correctness-wise, because I’m a senior citizen myself, with lots of time to ponder life… for fun. I was in my twenties, on a commuter subway car, when I noticed some seniors getting on. The first man to find […]
Facing the Truth, With Fearful Awareness
seanessay.com We all have strengths and weaknesses to be aware of. As for strengths, I remember folks in a fitness class I taught being delighted and telling me that I had a good sense of how fit they were: I had to know my own strength. Once I was hiking as part of my role […]
Old Age and Wisdom
seanessay.com If old age brings wisdom, then how might that be so? I remember years ago, in my callow, less-organized years, when I would stand at a bus stop having missed a bus for something I thought I very much wanted to attend. Oh no! Gloom, despair! And after a while, I would remember a […]
Some Cultures are More Equal than Others: Judging Moscow
seanessay.com Prologue Canada’s most famous liberal led the liberal Members of Parliament out of the room when the House of Commons was about to vote on whether the Chinese communist government was committing genocide. Under that prime minister’s watch, Canada has yet to erect a controversial memorial to the victims of communism… Maybe being fed […]
Flying Cars and Coping Skills
seanessay.com I sense that society sees our lives and recreation time as circling around, in support of, our work time. Play hard to work hard. Meanwhile, nearly all the “managing stress” talk in the media fails to mention “coping skills.” When I was a young man doing job interviews I was often asked, “How do […]
Learning More About Art
seanessay.com “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust I delight in combining ideas, as in making a “braided essay.” I just found out at a deeper level that, besides seeing differently, including seeing past our culture’s foliage, not at it… painters combine things […]