Revised Edition: THE PRE-RAPHAELITES It was on three wet and cold Sunday afternoons recently as Tasmania and Australia moved first closer to and then beyond the winter solstice---that I learned a few things about art. What I learned was about an art movement known as the Pre-Raphaelites. My wife usu...
On the first day of April 2012, just after April Fools’ Day ended as it does at noon, after I had been retired from the world of jobs for a dozen years, I was able to develop my study of Russia. I had taken an interest in Russia from the 1960s while at university and had even applied for a job there...
Thanks, johnwalkeasy, for your encouraging words. Frankl has always interested me. You can, of course, google him at Wikipedia for a bit of a biography. I'll post below another piece I wrote in relation to his influence on me.-Ron ---------------------------------------- 8) THE TRANSITORY MOMENT* Yo...
When Man's Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers(1902-1987), a founder of humanistic psychology, as "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." Now, more than fifty years and 5 million copies later, this tr...
It's quite cold here, as cold as it gets(minus 1 at worst in this town); thanks for your response. I like those quotes.-Ron
(I wonder how to reduce the size of that photo)
It was a wet and cold Sunday afternoon as Tasmania and Australia moved closer this weekend to the winter solstice just two days away. My wife usually watches Aussie rules and I write in my study. I often go downstairs to make a cup-of-coffee, have a snack, see how she is doing, wash a few dishes and...
I Should Add That....this is my new website. I posted my old website here several years ago and received some feedback. This new website is much more user-friendly. Although I have gone against the rule at this site of not posting my site more than once, this second posting seemed appropriate. Moder...
Ron Price's Website: Tasmania Australia is located at:
http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ I have an art section that may be of interest among a wide range of other disciplines and sub-disciples of learning and life.
Thanks, johnhudson5.....here are some more thoughts on memoirs.-Ron ---------------------------- That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. -A. E. Housman, “A Shropshire Lad” Pam Cook defines nostalgia as "a state of longing ...
I’ve never known a great deal about art. Visiting art galleries has always had a soporific effect on me—making me want to sit on one of those soft couches in the big rooms with their wall to wall art and have a sleep. In 1974, the year that Ian Fairweather died, I taught the sociology of art at a te...
In the last ten days I have seen John Olsen on television twice. He was described, among other things, as “Australia’s greatest living artist.” He certainly had some things to say about art and creative experience which are relevant to my own activity as a writer and the way I go about my creative l...
I’m not sure how much of a psychological necessity it was for me to seek relief by setting down this story. This work was no opiate, as Alexander Herzon’s autobiography was to him, “against the appalling loneliness of a life lived among uninterested strangers.” I was far from lonely and was surround...
This fellow Larson is so very funny....give him a look-see when your time permits.-Ron :arrow: Reading about the work of cartoonist Gary Larson and how he works I could not help compare and contrast his modus operandi and my own with respect to writing prose and poetry. Larson draws inspiration from...
