seanessay.com from Free Fall Friday No, I’m not nostalgic for the sixties. OK, for some of the fashions, maybe, but mostly it was a big hoax. Someone came across a girl by some park bleachers, perfectly looking like a hippie in a buckskin jacket, headband and so forth, a girl with a clear complexion. Turned […]
Mars Poem, Three Men in Three Centuries
seanessy.com January, the month when people visit their travel agency for new plans, was the month I posted my first The War of the Worlds poem, feeling nostalgia for another place and time. Today I give you my final poem. Goodby to a long road of 80 manuscript pages. A few final poems are posted […]
Gratitude and Mars
seanessay.com In the real world, a friend of mine has escaped a very stressful life among relatives. How bad? When some one from her old house came visiting, the dog stayed right with her, shaking, the whole time. That poor dog! Now my friend and her dog have a life of far less stress. I […]
CBC has War of the Worlds
seanessay.com For those who came in late, since I’m getting hits on this: CBC is running the series again, and a season 2 (series 2) is starting in early October. Meanwhile: Most of my War of the Worlds poems are in my old blog, but a few are in this new blog, with the most […]
Champion to Orphans
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 […]