MY HABITATS AND MY VISITORS
A leopard adorns this accesspage, this homepage, of my website. An opportunistic, single and versatile hunter, the leopard is often used in heraldry, on coats of arms in tracing geneology and to indicate a particular ancestry. The first use of a leopard on this opening page was largely accidental, but its use has proved fortuitous. When my son, Daniel, and I were creating the second edition of this website in 2001 a photo of a leopard was available and we stuck it in to provide a visual stimulus. I kept it in this website's 3rd edition and again in this 4th edition as part of my introduction, my homepage. The leopard is the smallest of the four "big cats," the others being the lion, tiger and jaguar. What follows at this site is a collection of writings from an animal who, like the leopard, is a quite solitary or, should I say, has become more solitary with age. I have developed, like the leopard, what I like to think is an agile and versatile, opportunistic and stealthy use of content and literary style, an ability to adapt, again like the leopard, to many habitats. Like the leopard, though, I do not always catch my prey, even after more than half a century of hunting for my survival and for the fun of it.
My habitats were, for decades, mainly social ones, although there has always been a strong element of the solitary in my habitation. The places I have come to occupy are increasingly literary habitats, especially as I entered the middle years of late adulthood, the years from 60 to 80 according to some human development psychologists. Like the leopard I eat meat but, unlike the leopard, I do not climb trees, at least not any more, not since the early 1950s when, in the early years of my middle childhood the ages from 6 to 12---again according to one of the many models of human development in the lifespan---I used to climb apple and cherry trees near my home in Canada. Nor do I ever eat humans. The leopard and I also part company in that I write poetry and prose. Leopards can be observed in their private habitats and I, too, welcome visitors to mine. Except for the snow leopard, the leopard is a relatively abundant species. Ron Prices are also abundant and over 2000 of them can now be found in cyberspace: some of notoriety and some of fame. Like the snow leopard, though, my life is increasingly endangered as I head into the late evening of my life and the inevitability of death.
Few of my visitors come to my literary habitat, my study, and when they do I can not show them 'my etchings.' What one writes is not like what one draws, paints or sculpts. Words on a page are for the private delectation of readers in their private spaces and, increasingly, in public and electronic spaces. My words can be observed by the millions on the internet for those who are interested. Collectors from charitable organizations, and those who have some cause to tell me about, come to my door. The only ones who come in the door, and not just to the door, are a few family members and friends. Occasionally a big crowd comes into my home but not nearly as often as big crowds once did. As I say, my life-style, my modus vivendi, is much more solitary now, a suitable one for the full-time writer and poet I have become.
MY CAMOUFLAGE AND MY READERSHIP
The camouflage of the leopard makes sightings rare. I, too, have a certain camouflage or protection that takes the form of my books as well as my hard copy and electronic files, my prose and poetry, my many intellectual pursuits: learning and the cultural attainments of the mind. But all is not camouflage at this site. Readers will come across a mild confessionalism, a confessionalism to partly satisfy curiosity and whet the whistle of readers. Readers will find at this site a wide range of subject matter, causes to which I am committed and interests in which I have been engaged, some for decades. Readers can access this content by clicking on the subject titles at the top of this page or by scrolling down and clicking on the topics below. Hopefully, readers with an interest in one or more of these sections or sub-sections, in one or more of my concerns or enthusiasms, in one or more of my interests and the causes to which I have been involved with most of my life in various ways, can get that same curiosity satisfied, those same whistles whetted. Given the burgeoning quantities of information now available on every conceivable topic on the internet, I will only gain a coterie of the 2 billion who now come into cyberspace. I have millions of readers after more than 10 years in cyberspace, after engaging in what are called search engine optimization techniques, and after registering at over 8000 web sites. Whatever need I once had for recognition, for a readership, has been satisfied to the full. I write now largely for pleasure and, if readers come along, that is a bonus. I don't mind bonuses.
MY ANNUAL EMAIL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
To read more of this introductory, this access, page of my website go to:http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/welcome.html For my annual email of 2011/12, last updated on 20 February 2012, go to the sub-section of this site entitled 'Autobiography' at:http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/auto.html
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