seanessay.com I’m only a senior citizen who doesn’t expect Canadians at the next breakfast table to remember… Sean Crawford, in last week’s post, A Spy Being Too Tired I started being an ornery old man back in childhood. I would take a Pacific Stage Lines bus along the mighty Fraser to the port city of […]
Abuse in the Home and Community
seanessay.com “May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift, rationalist poet: (1667-1745) Physical and mental abuse, from my parents and four brothers, declined as I grew bigger. Shortly after I moved away as a teenager, and was trying to process my life, I reasoned: If I have my arms and legs chopped […]
Moved to Pity by reading Circe
seanessay.com Today I am moved because I finished the excellent novel Circe, (Pronounced ‘sur see’, accent on first syllable, I looked it up) about the island witch who turned the companions of Odysseus into pigs. It is selling quietly and well, translated into 25 languages. I suppose I can leave out telling you the book […]
Free Falling Through Snow and History
seanessay.com (over 900 words) Falling down the rabbit hole, writing on Free Fall Friday. prompt- transferred My values have transferred. Once, if I sincerely wanted the doctor to come, I would hitch up the horses to fetch him. But once we installed (lazy) telephones the doctor wisely declined. Call it a transfer of values, from […]
Free Fall Travel
seanessay.com Every January, besides visiting their local gymnasium, some people see a travel agent, being resolved to spend “whatever it takes” to go somewhere this year. Because if we don’t resolve, then somehow another year slips by. At my regular class for “Free Fall Friday” writing, (At the Alexandra Centre Writers Society) I wrote two […]