seanessay.com Below minus 32 Fahrenheit, as my feet squeak through subzero snow, I reflect that there is one thing to break the gloom: Christmas! Such a time for gratitude, a time when Muslims, Jews and Atheists alike may all be grateful that evergreen Christmas trees, Frosty the snowman, Santa Claus, Rudolph and presents wrapped up […]
Human Nature is Russian Nature
seanessay.com All people are equal and alike but… Here’s something I found on Quora (social e-mail) from a U.S. citizen: My frail, ill mother treated me like shit from the time was 7 until she died. While living with me; she was terrible, horrific. I asked her WHY and this was her response: “Because I […]
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 […]
Free Fall Anticipation of Retirement
seanessay.com They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Lawrence Binyon Inscribed at the Scottish National War Memorial I was there, at the memorial in Edinburgh, back […]
Mommy, What did You do in the Ukraine War?
seanessay.com “Remember kids, nobody brave or honest believes anything the Kremlin says… Unlike the Russians, even the boy who cried wolf at least told the truth once.” Today, I quote someone with more soul than I. He was in the peacetime German army, when Germany was a democracy, and later fought for Kosovo’s freedom against […]