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 […]
Patterning Sentences For Fun and Profit
seanessay.com As a writer, I like to try patterns: Dusk Well. I wonder. Was it god’s will? My hard-drive is scrubbed. Sticky notes of useful quotes, gone. Any need for excerpts cut and pasted? Sentimental souvenirs may comfort; life is lived now. Unmoor the boat and row in currents of life. As for my novel, […]
Scandal of Schoolchildren Made to Write Mundane Essays
seanessay.com You may have read that old satiric short story about two British gentleman on a desert island who couldn’t speak to each without an introduction. Turns out loving essays is enough of an introduction. At the British Museum food court I noticed a New Age lady setting down a copy of Annie Dillard’s essay […]
Chicken Soup Meets Carlin
seanessay.com If you wondered and half hoped that the “Carlin” being “met” was comedian George Carlin, then you are in luck. Here’s a link to a review of the screen biography now out, George Carlin’s American Dream. Here’s a link to a respectful essay in my old blog, George Carlin and Diversity. Here’s the connection: […]
Schizophrenia Seen From Middle Age
seanessay.com (1,000 words) The first time I knew anyone living with schizophrenia was when a college classmate in her late 20’s, “Shawna,” was acting a little strange. A group of us slightly older students (early to mid-20’s) were leaving the younger ones to their long counter nook upstairs, “the Soup Kitchen” while we gathered at […]
No Placeholder Today
seanessay.com As the headline says, no placeholder today. This even though I have a piece nearly already composed in my head, but for now, I think I have to learn a lesson to be more time-organized, a lesson best reinforced by having nothing to put up today. Catch you on the flip side; see you […]