Update and Relax

essaysbysean.blogspot.com Update and Relax

Being a post “including” (which does NOT mean limited to) two mini parts:

1 Blog News Update

2 Let us Relax

Hello Reader,

Got relaxation?

(1) Blog news update:

If a weekend band, after a break, plays another set (of songs) then, for variety, a solo will never be the first song. For my blog, I seldom have two poetry-posts in a row, and for each poem I try to tack on a wee essay.

From my manuscript Tracing the Martians of H.G. Wells I have been posting, for variety, poems out of manuscript order.

I have already finished the sections Prologue and The Coming of the Martians. During January, for folks with a  “New year’s travel resolution,” over two blog posts I will finish To The Home of H.G. Wells. (I stood outside his house and talked to a neighbour) The sole remaining section—half the poems of which have already been posted—is After the Martians.

As for visitor statistics, 

my web site stats have not changed after the screening of The War of the Worlds BBC miniseries taking place in Edwardian times. Too bad, as I would hope fellow-fans around the world would like my poems. Here in town, of course, I’m the only one obsessed with Martians.

(2) Let us Relax

Let’s relax, after the bustle of the holiday season. Yes, a few artists who are household names will be hard at work at their craft, even on new year’s day, but you and I can take it easy. No? Then maybe not.

As for my own artistic ambitions, both in my blog life and my personal life—… I will wait until I have something to show; I try not to tell anything to anyone in advance.  As I advise new fiction writers, “Show, don’t tell.”

(3) Because last week’s post was so long, 

today I merely invite you to scroll down and peruse more of my Gay and Sad URLs piece.

Happy new year.

Sean Crawford

Calgary

January

2020

Footnote: Has something changed? I have no idea why people in the U.S. of A., if you write “including,” have recently started making you add the phrase “but not limited to”—(exasperation deleted) Come on, can’t regular adults be reasonably expected to use the Queen’s English? 

Here is the start of my Oxford computer ROM definition:

including | ɪnˈkluːdɪŋ |

preposition

containing as part of the whole being considered: languages including Welsh and Gaelic | weapons were recovered from the house, including a shotgun.

include | ɪnˈkluːd |

verb [with object]

1 comprise or contain as part of a whole: the price includes dinner, bed, and breakfast | other changes included the abolition of the death penalty.

2 make part of a whole or set: we have included some hints for beginners in this section.

• allow (someone) to share in an activity or privilege: there were doubts as to whether she was included in the invitation.

• (include someone out) informal specifically exclude someone from a group or activity.