seanessay.com Warren Kinsella, once part of the prime minister’s inner circle, says it better than I can: Here’s his story about how multiculturalism wasn’t supposed to mean believing in hatred. Link https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-is-this-at-long-last-the-result-of-multiculturalism I like how he said Canadian culture means, “Peace, order and good government” because folks can grasp it. They may not know about […]
Not Nolan’s Odyssey; Enjoying Odyssey-5
seanessay.com Here is a clip from an awesome piece about The Odyssey by Victor Hanson Davis, of Stanford University, in the Calgary Sun, January 9, 2021 … we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture… Our current cultural crisis is not from reading too much, but from not reading much of anything at all. Most of […]
A Beautiful Cousin Brightens My Day
seanessay.com As a librarian might say, about books or people, “You can’t judge a person by her skin.” Yes, but I can for fun. Did you see the magazine that comes with this morning’s Globe and Mail? Today’s Free Fall writing prompt is a one page fashion photograph of a lady in solid colours, and […]
Thinking of Thin-skinned People
I was at an organized Christmas evening at the Alexandra Writer’s Centre Society, a place that includes folks under 18. That night I was asked to read five minutes of a typical “Friday Free Fall.” My reading, all from the same Friday, was an observational piece about road beauty, a funny romance piece, and a […]
Jane’s Tears Forgotten Like Rain
seanessay.com When I awoke this morning Jane was alive. I took the subway to Leicester Square and walked down in a light rain past my favourite London alley, one that passed for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter movies. I like how for we the living, amidst the grey, fantasy brightens things up. The “Diagon” […]
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. […]