seanessay.com As I write this I am too sick to attend the service this morning. I will soon return to bed. In the next two days I have two medical appointments that I may not be able to attend. Outlook grey. The good news is someone wrote me a nice letter about our shared past, […]
Beneath the Museum of The Regiments
seanessay.com I don’t have survivor guilt because I am grateful God has a purpose for me. We were soldiers once… and young. Now, twice a week I support a volunteer archivist. Approaching the Museum of the Regiments, in the cold autumn air… I hear again quiet forlorn radio voices in the night. I smell machine […]
A Farm Wife, a Banshee, and a Powerful Old Man
Yesterday is relevant again… My favourite Canadian National Film Board movie is a story only six or seven minutes long, in black and white—and it stabbed. Not a story for me to see at bed time, not unless I have a stiff drink at hand, not unless I want to stagger up out of a […]
Free Fall Hurtling into Poppies
seanessay.com The joy of Fee Fall Writing is not how well one writes, but whether, while hurtling to the ground, one can write at all. Writing prompt- A tarot card marked “success” Jeez I wish I had more success. My fellow essayist George Orwell said, “Everyman’s life, seen from inside, is a series of defeats.” […]
Shock Jock Meets the President
seanessay.com Infamous long haired radio “shock jock” Howard Stern put on a suit for the first time since his daughter’s wedding to interview the president of the United States. I thought both men were sincere. They took about an hour. I am holding back my scheduled post, one that my peers at the C-space building […]
Remembrance Day for the Tragedy of Troy
seanessay.com a long re-run today, twice the usual length For Remembrance Day I feel this is timely, as novels are selling about Ancient Greece: This year I have read Stone Blind (about Medusa) Circe (Who hosted Odysseus on her island after the war) and Elektra (about Elektra’s mother, who was Helen’s sister, and of Cassandra […]