seanessay.com I was born weeks into the space age. Optimism! Although Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World were trickling into our culture… but most people won’t read. It was Robert A. Heinlein, writing before television, who began putting prose, optimistic short stories, into that magazine with Norman Rockwell covers: The Saturday Evening Post. To a […]
Respect In Action Part One
I work with people with disabilities. My supervisor said affectionately, “I can put you with anyone.” That’s because, said a colleague, I always “lean in,” no matter how hard a client is. Yes, and also because clients with challenging behaviours may sense that deep down I respect them. Never, during a confrontation, do I stand […]
Man on Mars, Duck on Prairie
seanessay.com Well howdy there, Web surfers. No saving the world today; I’m merely pasting in old stuff from rapid-write Free Fall Fridays. Writing Prompt dwellers One of my joys in life is being a prairie dweller. Do you know what that means? In the winter, long underwear is sexy. In the summer, a back pack […]
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 […]
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 […]