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. […]
Children’s Annuals Are A Golden Part of Childhood
seanessay.com My Canadian boyhood was enriched by reading various children’s annuals (yearly) from Britain. Such a privilege. Recently I asked around, and found that few fellow Canadians had read them. Perhaps they were only available in bookstores: I suspect Mum bought them so we could know our British Heritage. My favourites were the annuals for […]
To Act and React on Right Principles, not like Trump
seanessay.com I wasn’t prepared for what I saw on February 24, three years plus two days after after one man, Putin, launched his “special military operation” in Ukraine, which in reality is a war, although, by law, Russians can get 15 years in prison if they say, “war.” To set the stage: The great educator […]
When a Lost Heart Returns at Christmas
I wasn’t going to write today, until I saw a BBC news story. So sad. A mother disappeared, and now her children are teenagers, but of course if she wanted to show up with no questions asked, it would be at Christmas, so they set her a place, and it tears their hearts. The most […]
Cruel Students Who Ignorantly Cancel
seanessay.com Anyone who reads my essays probably takes a grown up interest in the news, and has heard how this summer a 24-year old man tried to murder Salman Rushdie in public, onstage, for a novel published back in the 20th century. I was not surprised to learn that the grown adult who attempted to […]
Lost Merry Christmas Links
seanessay.com Well, I wanted to put up a merry post for you. Nothing hard, no prose, only links to three or four songs, and two or three Youtube clips of funny TV shows. Like I did on my old blog for the Christmas of 2019, except that this time, because my new blog has a […]