seanessay.com during Friday Free Fall, writing until the timer goes off. prompt- let me finish my sentence The saddest words are “let my finish my sentence!” It’s not very dignified, it shows panic, it shows being at the mercy of another. It shows an emotional sentence with swirling emotions going on. And it’s embarrassing to […]
Incongruous Animals In Free Fall
seanessay.com from Free Fall Friday Prompt- four magpies and a squirrel The world is full a lessons, patterns, swirling forces… Some magpies were gathered on a curb, the dead squirrel on the road. The pattern of DNA ribbons and selfish genes meant the birds did not push and shove. Each took their turn to savour […]
Changing Opinions about Changing Dreams
seanessay.com From Friday Free Fall writing Prompt- changed opinions The coulees around Lethbridge change to green with the blessed rain. Oh, one can curse the rain, expend energy in hunching shoulders and frowning eyes, but why? The same amount of rain still gets into you eyes and down your collar and into your shoes. The […]
Free Fall Kaleidoscope and Yelling
seanessay.com … Written on Free Fall Friday … Prompt- stop yelling Words to live by. Nobody yells about the falsity or truth of the Pythagorus theorem, or the pigments in acid green. No, we only argue about the most unprovable subjective things. It was Dale Carnegie who pointed out that no one ever wins an […]
Lightness in the Library
seanessay.com Written During Free Fall Friday … Prompt- please please please be quiet “I wish,” said Jimmy the nerd, “that our textbooks would have repetition, because then I would do better on the test.” We were in the school library, keeping our voices low. I shot him a sharp glance—everybody knew Jimmy got the best […]
Ideas, Things and People
seanessay.com The progression goes: Most folks talk about people, fewer talk about things, fewer still talk about ideas. People David Gazard I see have some blog hits from Australia. In my late middle age, I am remembering: That’s where my university student newspaper editor, David Gazard, went to live. Turns out the “journalism ecology” there, […]