essaysbysean.blogspot.com “Orphans make the best recruits.” M to 007, in Skyfall Although commonly disparaged in self-help books, Pollyanna is a nice novel. I enjoyed it as a classic about an impoverished orphan refusing to be defeated. Surely Amy Adams would have played the heroine if any Pollyanna movies been made during Amy’s girlhood: “I think […]
Learning Fine Art, Sans Martians
essaysbysean.blogspot.com If fine art finds some people as oblivious as Martians then maybe that’s from people turning away from two sorts of time. I sympathize. There is the time needed to learn: Training the eye and heart to appreciate the best. Which is nice to do, but who has the time for learning to enjoy […]
Poetry Matters
seanessay.com If articles on humour in business magazines are written humorously, (they all are) then I guess an essay called Poetry Matters should be written poetically. Ya, but I’m only human, and my deadline is tonight—after I’ve done some socializing, including (“but not limited to” interjects my panicky lawyer) being outside on lawn chairs with […]
Smug, not Smug
seanessay.com Introduction: As teens, we were so heavily serious about ourselves, so judgemental about other people’s choice of music. As an adult, I can lightly step to one side and laugh at myself. Today I wrote to a successful musician, Derek Sivers, after his podcast interview. (link) Dear Derek, Greetings from the Canadian prairie. In […]