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 […]
Words for My Nice Nazi Neighbours
seanessay.com “Words build your world” a man at a party. … I respect Sir Winston Churchill, remembered as the man who warned. Remembered by me as the man who distrusted the word appease. He could see better than most, maybe because he valued words more than most. For example, during the Allied advance up Italian mountains, […]
Seven Books to Brighten the Solstice Season
seanessay.com During this mid-winter of our discontent, we can make things bright by the sun of books. Since starting this blog, for seven books I have essayed, ofttimes as a chance to comment on our world stage where methinks we play the part of witness. Having little regard for SEO, Search Engine Optimization, I seldom […]
War and Gratitude
seanessay.com Free Fall Writing: As defined by novelist W.O. Mitches, where you fall out of a plane and write like mad to save your life before you hit the ground. We pull prompts out of a hat. Writing prompt- Peace in the valley One of my joys in life is having peace in the valley. […]
Learning More About Art
seanessay.com “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust I delight in combining ideas, as in making a “braided essay.” I just found out at a deeper level that, besides seeing differently, including seeing past our culture’s foliage, not at it… painters combine things […]
New Ethics and Old Cluster Bombs
seanessay.com My main interest is ethics—what does little old me know about cluster bombs? This week many groups and governments, including Canada, have spoken out against the US giving them to Ukraine. I know that many nations—but not Russia, US and Ukraine—have banned them. Because cluster bombs break into a cluster of smaller bombs that […]