seanessay.com My old communist friend would, I think, relate to my favourite Easter “glimpse.” Even while reciting “religion is the opium of the people” he would know that if the revolution is for anybody, then it’s for everybody. Our religious comrades are part of the whole package. Of course a Marxist can be religious. I […]
A Return to Enjoying Public Transit
seanessay.com Being sans car for a few days (I get it tomorrow), I spent today doing errands on public transit: train twice, bus thrice. Nice to connect with downtown again. “Don’t ever get a car,” I used to tell people, “for now I have lost touch with downtown.” On the electric train I admired the […]
Meeting a Man and His Dog in London
seanessay.com So there I was, in London under a dismal sky… trotting to catch the end of the walk signal, closing up behind a man with his leashed dog—and ya, I was judgmental over his lack of traffic punctuality: even though I was slow too. Once across, we had a block-long grassy park on our […]
Bouncing Through London at the Speed of Sight
How to travel? Don’t ask me, for if anything is individual, that would be traveling. Here is a composite (made up) conversation: I was amazed at the married couple who traveled and didn’t fight. “Back home,” they said, “we have all our expectations worked out. Traveling means new negotiations… and to our wonderment, we were […]
London With Metaphor, Without Light
seanessay.com “To me, poetry and prayer walk hand in hand” Jericho Brown I ask you: What if I traveled like a poet, seeing by metaphor, noticing what I notice? Maybe I would notice that, while walking around today, I didn’t “ooh and awe” over buildings, and that it helped when I stopped and looked at […]
What Secrets Are We Not Seeing?
seanessay.com I recently read how some cultures don’t have words for certain colours, and can’t perceive those colours. I guess it’s like how folks looking through microscopes at cells didn’t see that little dot of a nucleus, not until after someone wrote about it in a magazine. Even then, not everyone included the dot in […]