Preamble Part 1: What follows is a series of 6 posts on one thread here at this International Forum where I've been

posting for several years. I have posted between 100 and 200 thousand words at this site at least two good!si"ed boo#s. Perhaps after my demise an event soon to ta#e pla$e as the $lo$#!flies as tempus fugit as my mother used to say perhaps boo#s will be made of all my posts. I am somewhat in$lined to the view that for millions of people boo#s are somewhat passe even de$lasse to $hose a word that rarely appears these days. %till given the yin and yang of life and the $omple&ityof so many issues I'm sure there are also more boo#s being read now in 201' than at any other time in history espe$ially given the world's population of (.' billion $ompared to 2.' in 1)** when I was born. I get an invitation every two or three wee#s from the administrators and moderators to add another post at this international forum. +lthough there are only 6 posts in this series on this thread readers will ,ui$#ly tire if they attempt to read all my - posts and the summary statement at the end in one reading in one go. .here are some *0 000 words and 120 pages/font!1*0 in the statement below so s#im or s$an this lengthy do$ument!!!is my advi$e read until you get tired or lose interest or it goes without saying 1ust don't read it. In this latter $ase go somewhere else: /i0 to read and2or en1oy whatever images/moving or still0 $at$h your fan$y and interests /ii0 to ma#e whatever $lever or funny or both remar#s you $an ma#e at some so$ial

networ#ing site/%3%0 and2or /iii0 to en1oy your enthusiasms and passions!!!be$ause there are plenty of things in $yberspa$e you might en1oy more than reading what is found below. .here is now plenty to do in real spa$e and getting entangled in my e&tensive words of appre$iation to and for: /a0 a myriad of people pla$es and things and /b0 aspe$ts of my life over the last (0 years sin$e my $on$eption some time in mid!4$tober 1)*'!!may not be the best use of your time. 5ut I leave you to wor# out how to use your time and if reading this statement attra$ts your interest go for it aned may it be of some personal value. I began posting the following pie$e at this International Forum on 2*2102'12 and this latest addition this last pie$e of editing was pla$ed here three months later on 2-212'1'. !6on Pri$e .asmania +ustralia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Preamble Part 2: In some of my $hildhood years and adoles$en$e the ages ) to 1) and the first de$ade of my young adulthood 20 to '0 the seeds of what I believed and still believe to be a divine #nowledge were sown in the soil of my heart./10 .hese were the years in total from 1)-' to 1)(- in my lifespan. It was a heart whi$h had its pure parts and $ertainly by the age of '0 its share of impure elements loves of various #inds that in$lined me to ere in my ways in$linations that would have been better if they were not part of my life and immaturities that too# de$ades to learn to deal with and some of whi$h I am still dealing with. 7ife is a long path of learning and the two de$ades from the first years of my late $hildhood to the beginning of the last de$ade of my young adulthood age ) to age '0 were formative ones. 8or many reasons I #ept that divine #nowledge to whi$h I refer part of my first organi"ed and arti$ulate belief system hidden!!!at least mostly!!!due to the disinterest of those around me in the $ontent of that #nowledge. We all have to $hose whi$h parts of life's #nowledge!base we want to ma#e permanent or at least a long term part of our lives and whi$h parts to share with others. 9ost of those I #new in my $hildhood adoles$en$e and young adulthood the 1)-0s through the 1)(0s $arried on the beliefs of their parents or opted for atheism agnosti$ism or one of the many variants of se$ular humanism $entering their lives in the pro$ess on: family 1ob a range of personal

interests from .: to gardening from $oo#ing to sport. ;.o ea$h their own; seems to be the adage. 3ot everyone wants to investigate what we investigate or engage in whatever is our roman$e or religion our personal re$ipes. 3ot everyone is going to share our parti$ular interests: whoever we are and whatever our interests. 9u$h sadness results from hoping others will be enthusiasti$ about what we have enthusiasms. 9u$h loneliness $omes from the simple inability to be able to people out solitude with the 1oys of aloneness and the various a$tivities asso$iated with $ontemplation the intelle$tual side of life and en1oying one's own $ompany. 5y my mid!-0s I had had enough of the so$ial world and yearned for aloneness but not everyone e&perien$es this fatigue with people that I did after -0 years of a highly so$ial and gregarious life!style. It too# me some years to learn not to e&pe$t others to be enthusiasti$ about what I was enthusiasti$ about< unrealisti$ e&pe$tations dot the lives of most of us and lead in one way or another to a $ertain sadness. Perhaps that #nowledge that divine #nowledge to whi$h I refer above was also #ept hidden from others as well as myself by those mysterious dispensations of Providen$e and my own in$apa$ities. I was unaware in those early years of my life of the marvellous truths and wisdoms of this earthly and etherial wisdom that had $ome into my life as early as '-'. .hese truths and wisdoms only gradually be$ame part of my understanding only gradually be$ame part of my everyday use in pra$ti$e. +nd again whatever I regard as truths and wisdoms is not and has not been shared with everyone else in my life espe$ially family and friends who were $lose to me. 9y belief that the 5aha'i 8aith was the latest the newest of the +brahami$ religions was not shared with most of those I $ame to #now in life. =radually though more and more pennies dropped as I went through the last de$ade of young adulthood/'0!*00 middle age/*0!600 and the first de$ade of late adulthood/60!(00. I will be (0 in 1> months from now on 2'2(2'1* and if good health stays with me I hope to be$ome a $entenarian in 20** and get my letter from the ?ueen or @ing as members of Aommonwealth $ountries have done sin$e 1)1(. .he +nniversaries 4ffi$e at 5u$#ingham Pala$e is responsible for sending!out su$h letters. 9ost of the pennies dropped in the form of my writing prose and poetry although e&$ellent treatments for my bipolar disorder were li#e gifts from the gods so to spea#. .hese treatments $ame in stages from the 1)60s to the last ) months of 2012 and 201'.

In the first ) years of my late adulthood/60 to 6)0 on retirement and on two old!age pensions and espe$ially the years after the age of 6- in 200) hya$inths of a divine wisdom finally began to spring from my heart at least that was my view if not the view of all my readers and friends. .hose hya$inths had begun to spring!forth before the age of 6- in sensible and not so sensible ways. +s I loo# ba$# over the de$ades of my life I $an see that they have been in eviden$e perhaps as far ba$# as the 1)-0s but that eviden$e was not as abundant as it be$ame as it bloomed in my 60s. .his of $ourse is what you might $all a personal retrospe$tive a personal refle$tion on the ( de$ades that have been my life thusfar. .here were also wisdoms that sprang from mire and $lay from my shadowy and ephemeral atta$hments/20. %o it was that I felt I always had to analyse my views to refine them and so $ome to understand them more deeply than I on$e had. 8or as I say above life is one long path of learning and dis$overy ma#ing mista#es falling down and getting up to try again. In some ways it is not the falling down that is $ru$ial but the getting ba$# up and $ontinuing the 1ourney the battle the road of life. .here have been some people in my life who possess a persisten$e in dealing with their tests and diffi$ulties and they have been li#e mentors even though they often did not #now it. 4ne person who has been my mentor in this regard has been my se$ond wife who has had to deal with fibromyalgia and $hroni$ fatigue syndrome or 1ust the problems assoi$ated with hypothyriodism in re$ent years to say nothing of her two maste$tomies and a hystore$tomy. Indeed she has had a list of psy$hologi$al and physi$al problems that were enough to sin# a ship so to spea#. I am one of those fair!weather $reatures who feel good when life is good and when I am in physi$al dis$omfort I do not deal with it with stamina and persisten$e patien$e and a long!suffering attitude. I e&press my appre$iation to her in more detail further!on in this statement. In our $omple& world it is somewhat presumptuous to $laim to possess any wisdom. :irtually all of whatever wisdom is mine was obtained from others: from reading from observing and as I say from learning by my mista#es. I leave it to readers to assess the eviden$e of any wisdom or la$# of it in the lengthy statement below and in my general writings!!!whi$h readers $an now a$$ess in $yberspa$e if they are interested. In some ways I feel I have only made a start along this lengthy path of wisdom a$,uisition. =o to this lin# if you are interested for the latest of my annual emails2letters for a$$ess to the $urrent state of play in my

life:http:22$on$eptart.org2forums2showthread.phpB2*1->>!6on!Pri$e!s! +nnual!Cmail!for!2012!1st!CditionDpE'*-26')Fpost'*-26') If this lin# proves too diffi$ult to a$$ess 1ust go to my website by googling these words: Pioneering 4ver 8ive Cpo$hs. .hen go to the sub!se$tion on +utobiography. .his will lead you to the lin# to my annual letters for 2011212 201221' and 201'21*. Preamble: Part ': .he life and ideas writings and analysis of the 6oman emperor 9ar$us +urelius/121 to 1>0 +.G.0 and the 5ritish historian +rnold .oynbee /1>>)! 1)(-0 taught me at various times from my university days/1)6'!1)6(0 to the years of my retirement from all 8. P. and $asual!volunteer wor#/2006!20120 by their e&ample. I still wor#ed for several $auses mostly in $yberspa$e and to some e&tent in real spa$e. .hese were $auses to whi$h I have been $ommitted for various lengths of time from the 1)-0s to this se$ond de$ade of the 21st $entury. .hese two historians philosophers and poets taught me or at least I learned by reading their wor#s how good and how pleasant it is for a writer and author a poet and publisher an editor and resear$her an online 1ournalist and blogger!!!li#e myself to de$lare his gratitude to those in his life whose words and senten$es lives and a$tions found their way ine&pli$ably into his life and he li#es to thin# into his soul. Wishing to delight myself in part be$ause I am a writer and author I now give my e&pression of than#s for the virtues and a$tions of those who have lived with me in the priva$y of my inner $hamber and in my so$ial life to those many sour$es of meaning and pleasure whi$h have enri$hed my life. I now want to than# those who have helped me rise at least partly from the prison of self to some of the glorious meads above and at least to some e&tent from this mortal $age unto parts of the paradise of the Pla$eless./'0 !6on Pri$e with the deepest appre$iation for /105ahaHuHllahHs Hidden Words Persian F '6 and /'0 F')< and /20 5ahaHuHllah Tablet of the True Seeker Gleanings 5ahaHi Pub. .rust Wilmette 1)-6/1)')0 p. 26*. I first $ame a$ross the statements of appre$iation D a$#nowledgement that the above two wonderful writers to whom I have been indebted for their writings had e&pressed to those to whom they were indebted nearly -0

years ago. It is high time for me to e&press my own than#s and a$#nowledgements in relation to my indebtedness to: others to people pla$es and things in my life. .his statement is now some *0 000 words and 120 pages using font!1* in length!!hen$e the need for readers to glan$e lightly at this do$ument s#im or s$an read every word if they are so in$lined or as I say above 1ust not read the following.!6on Pri$e Statement of Thanks and Acknowledgements last updated on 2-212'1'. Preamble: Part *: .his statement follows many paths and in$ludes many approa$hes to the overall view the $omprehensive presentation and pi$ture of my than#s and a$#nowledgements. %ome readers will find this re$itation this a$$ount far too $ir$uitous far too lengthy and detailed for their li#ing. I write this pie$e mainly for my own interest and if readers find it also of interest so mu$h the better. 4ne $ould go on endlessly on su$h a topi$ than#ing the universe for staying in its pla$e and not wandering out of balan$e than#ing all the asteroids for not running into our planet and on and on might go some litany by a writer who writes $ompulsively as I have $ome to do to some e&tent in this the evening of my life!!!having retired from 8. P. and as mu$h volunteer wor# as possible and having also limited my so$ial engagements to a minimum. 4ne must draw the line somewhere and I have done so below. 7i#e all su$h statements it is a ,uite personal and idiosyn$rati$ one.!6on Pri$e +ustralia written over the period 2* 4$tober 2012 to 2- Ianuary 201' in the se$ond!half of my 6)th year. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Part 1: PC4P7C To my Mother for helping to awa#en in me a love for musi$ and words poetry and prose as well as a sensitivity to the religious and philosophi$al aspe$ts of life. %he was there of $ourse from my in$eption and my earliest memories in 1)*(2> $onsist of her #indness and gentleness her long! suffering persisten$e and her many ways and means of e&posing me to the input of a religious and poeti$ sensibility an intelle$tual and so$ial responsibility.

If my 9other had not been there giving to my mind and heart that early bent a bent and dire$tion that be$ame more and more evident as my teens turned into my twenties and my twenties into my thirties I have little doubt that I would not now be writing these words. %he is responsible in part at least for the general orientation of my life. In many ways my orientation is very different from hers. We ea$h must see# our own path. +s the 7ebanese!+meri$an artist poet and writer @ahlil =ibran wrote about ;a woman who held a babe against her bosom and who said: ;%pea# to us of Ahildren.; +nd he said: ;Jour $hildren are not your $hildren. .hey are the sons and daughters of 7ife's longing for itself. .hey $ome through you but not from you +nd though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Jou may give them your love but not your thoughts. 8or they have their own thoughts. Jou may house their bodies but not their souls 8or their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow whi$h you $annot visit not even in your dreams.; and he went on: ;Jou may strive to be li#e them but see# not to ma#e them li#e you. 8or life goes not ba$#ward nor tarries with yesterday. Jou are the bows from whi$h your $hildren as living arrows are sent forth. .he ar$her sees the mar# upon the path of the infinite and Ke bends you with Kis might that Kis arrows may go swift and far. 7et your bending in the ar$her's hand be for gladness< 8or even as he loves the arrow that flies so Ke loves also the bow that is stable.; !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To my Father for the e&ample of his ,uietness and hard!wor#ing life for giving his all to my mother and I and for being an e&ample to me of another type of persisten$e and patien$e for his sin!$overing eye and for his always e&erting an effort in the years I remember him in his 60s and early (0s when his fatherly advi$e and his having embra$ed a new 8aith in the evening of his life helped to give a dire$tion to mine in my life's early morning espe$ially the years 1)-' to 1)6-. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To my first and my second wife two women who also taught me by their e&ample. 9y first marriage was over the 6 year period: >21)6( to 1221)(' and that first wife/Iudy =ower now Iudy 3oa$# age 6-0 taught me or gave me the daily e&ample of a spontaneity and a delight in life among other things. %he was also a fine primary s$hool tea$her and went on to tea$h for more than *0 years retiring in Iune 2012.

In the $ase of my se$ond wife whom I have now #nown from 22'(* to 12'1' ') years. I e&perien$ed a woman who had the ability to give and to endure in the fa$e of diffi$ulties. I do not possess that ability that $apa$ity to endure the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to anything li#e the same e&tent as is her enduran$e. 5ut she has pointed the way for me to at least try within the $onte&t of my in$apa$ity. I have spent more time with my se$ond wife than any other person on earth and I than# her for the myriad things she has done to and for me for helping me raise three $hildren and for a$$ompanying me into the evening of my life as helpmate and $ompanion friend and $olleague. %he and I will I hope go the distan$e together into the evening and indeed the nighttime hours of our earthly life. It is my belief that we shall also go into the land of lights that ;undis$overed $ountry; as %ha#espeare says in his famous solilo,uy in Kamlet ;from whose bourn 3o traveller returns2 pu""les the will +nd ma#es us rather bear those ills we have2.han fly to others that we #now not ofB; !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To my 1 child, 2 ste !children, one grand!child, " # ste ! grandchildren for helping to give me a sense of a normal or should I say somewhat traditional life!narrative in the lifespan. In the last several de$ades with the brea#down of the traditional family in the West there has arisen a multitude of family types: /i0 single parent with #ids /ii0 single parent with no #ids /iii0partners who are as they say in de fa$to relationships /iv0 people having affairs within the $onte&t of one of the variety of marital relationships /v0 homose&ual and lesbian family arrangements /vi0 married with no #ids /vii0 group marriage /viii0 $ommon!law marriage and /i&0 marriage with partners who died early leaving the other partner alone inter alia. + $ommon!law marriage $an also be #nown as a sui juris marriage that is an informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute< this is an irregular form of marriage that $an be legally $ontra$ted in an e&tremely limited number of 1urisdi$tions. Aommon law marriage should not be $onfused with non!marital relationship $ontra$ts whi$h involve two people living together without holding themselves out to the world as spouses and2or without legal re$ognition as spouses in the 1urisdi$tion where the $ontra$t was formed. 3on!marital relationship $ontra$ts are not ne$essarily re$ogni"ed from one 1urisdi$tion to another whereas $ommon law marriages are by definition legally valid marriages worldwide provided the parties $omply with the

re,uirements to form a valid marriage while living in a 1urisdi$tion that still allows this irregular form of marriage to be $ontra$tedinter alia. I have now en1oyed at least for the most part some *6 years of marriage/1)6(!201'0 in two affinal families. + marital relationship is for most people a demanding one and a $onte&t for a great deal of signifi$ant learning in the path of life. It is also a $onte&t for the raising of $hildren an e&er$ise in whi$h I have now been involved for nearly *0 years as I have seen them grow from $hildhood to the stages of early adulthood/20!*00 and middle adulthood/*0 to 600. 9y oldest step! daughter is now *( and I $ame into her life when she was > in 1)(*. I should also add here that I had the pleasure of growing!up in what so$iologists $all a $onsanguineal family of three in whi$h I was the only $hild of older parents. 9y mother was *0 when I was born and my father --. I was able to start life on a solid base of values and beliefs from these two souls to whom I was the fruit of their life. I also had the benefit of my grandfather's presen$e to the age of ' in Kamilton 4ntario where I was born. +s I have grown into my late adulthood the years from 60 to >0 a$$ording to one of the many models of human development in the lifespan used by psy$hologists I have be$ome mu$h more $onservative mu$h more appre$iative of tradition of familiarity of the loyalty of a partner of the importan$e to me of someone with whom I have shared most of my life and will share my future years until one of us passes from this mortal $oil. 9y relationship is not nor has it always been easy but that is true of nearly all of the really important relationships in my life and I might add most other peoples' lives. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My family, both my consanguineal and two affinal families re,uired of me more patien$e and #indness than I thought I had as well as more self! dis$ipline self!forgetfulness and the need to persist and #eep going to maintain the lin#s that $an be and should be but not always are part of the family bond. In the pro$ess I was able to provide both finan$ial support a home and hearth and prote$tion from lifeHs elements. I was also able to be as good an e&ample as possible of how to live to my several $hildren and grand!$hildren. sometimes even the power of negative e&ample it a powerful one for one's $hildren. 5eing at first a $hild in my $ase a son of two legally married parents over 2' years until the death of my father and then a step!parent a step!

grandparent over 1) years/to 201'0 as well as a parent and a grandparent over '- and 2 years respe$tively!!!has given me a set of roles in life whi$h have taught me many things too many things to list here things I am still learning in these several roles and things I may not have learned had I not been at first a $hild then a step!parent a parent a step!grand!parent and a grandparent. Ca$h of these family units: $onsanguineal and affinal has demanded of me all that I had in terms of patien$e and enduran$e $ompassion and a wide range of human virtues. I sometimes thought I was being tested beyond my $apa$ity but in retrospe$t I do not thin# this has been the $ase. I have 5aha'u'llah's words to $onfirm this view. ndeed I have Kis words to $onfirm many of my ideas in life words whi$h have given me a sense of $ertitude that has been an asset all my adult life. Cveryone in life has their own story insofar as the a$,uisition of good human ,ualities is $on$erned. + signifi$ant part of my story has been in the roles of a ,uite traditional life!narrative of the lifespan. +nd I am than#ful for that. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To my grandfather, and my mother$s brother and sister for yet other e&amples to me of how to live what to do with my time and what to strive! after in life's 1ourney. .heir generosity and #indness in my formative years my $hildhood and adoles$en$e I will never forget and those ,ualities have helped to give me even now a sense of a solid foundation for the living of my life as well as its meaning and purpose. 5y the time I was *0 they had all left this earthly life and I $ould begin my years of spiritual maturity as 5aha'u'lah $alls the age of *0. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Part 2: .W4 %PCAI+7 KI%.46I+3% To %rnold Toynbee, &dward Gibbon and a Host of Historians for their sheer intelle$tual prowess and o$$upation their persisten$e in a$hieving their literary goals and purposiveness their self!dis$ipline and $on$entration their eager appetite for #nowledge and their ambition to $arry out the duties imposed on them by their native $uriosity and their $reative intelle$tual wor#. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Part ': To Peo le and Institutions, 'andsca es and (uildings, Photogra hs and Mo)ing Pictures, *adio and (oo+s Part #,1- M.*& P&.P'&

9y $uriosity was stirred and meaning and pleasure in my life was enhan$ed by all of the above. .his Part 1 though deals with the multitude of people up to the age of '0 the end of the first de$ade of my young adulthood. .here were several people who $ame into my life from the age of ) to '0 as a result of my asso$iation with the 5ahaHi 8aith beginning at the age of ) in 1)-'. %ome of these people were a$ademi$s: Iameson 5ond an anthropologist and Gouglas 9artin a historian< 9i$hael 6o$hester a physi$ist and his wife Cli"abeth a psy$hologist!so$ial wor#er< 3an$y Aampbell a dan$ing instru$tor and prominent 5aha'i in southern 4ntario and several others whose names I have now forgotten. In addition there were others who were wor#ing men and women from many wal#s in life: Iohn and Kattie Gi&on 8red =raham 7ulu 5arr 7oretta 8ran$is and so many others to whom I owe so many different things too many to list here. /ameson (ond helped the penny to drop in my a$ademi$ and professional $areer at a $riti$al turning point from 4$tober 1)6- to 9ay 1)6( while I was in my last two years of university. I de$ided at that time to travel!and! pioneer among the Inuit and to do so I had to ,ualify as a primary s$hool tea$her. %o it was that on finishing my 5.+. in 1)66 I entered tea$hersH $ollege in the small 5ahaHi $ommunity of Windsor 4ntario Aanada's most southerly $ity where Iameson 5ond was a professor of anthropology at the Lniversity of Windsor. I spent most of the ne&t four de$ades/1)6(!200(0 as a tea$her and le$turer among several other 1obs in the international pioneer field 1obs and roles whi$h readers here $an survey at 7indedIn 8a$eboo# and in the A: the resume whi$h follows in this lengthy thread. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0ouglas Martin was a high s$hool history tea$her and a member of the national spiritual assembly of the 5ahaHis of Aanada when he $ame into my life in my third year of high s$hool. Ke often too# me to dis$ussions or firesides as 5aha'is $all them in .oronto and to 5ahaHi summer s$hools in 9i$higan and in northern 4ntario. +t the time he was arguably the Aanadian 5ahaHi $ommunityHs best publi$ spea#er. I heard him give innumerable publi$ tal#s and his style and manner his ideas and intelle$t stimulated the early development of my own ideas in relation to the 5ahaHi 8aith among other sub1e$ts. I have #ept my interest in history from the 1)-0s to this se$ond de$ade of the 21st $entury and his influen$e is diffi$ult to ,uantify.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will not site $hapter and verse of the influen$e of many other 5ahaHis in my $hildhood adoles$en$e and young adulthood!!!in whose homes I spent some time o$$asionally with my parents sometimes with my first wife and often on my own. .hese 5ahaHis were ordinary men and women whom I got to #now in my $hildhood my teens and my twenties due to a degree of so$ial intima$y domesti$ familiarity and personal dialogue that I $annot put into words. .he full measure of what they have given to me and my feelings for them even after the passing of more than *0 to 60 years is impossible for me to e&press in a few words. Indeed it re,uires an autobiography whi$h is now some 2600 pages. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .here were of $ourse many others from many wal#s in life: do"ens of tea$hers and professors le$turers and tutors and 100s of fellow wor#ers $olleagues and students over an 1> year period as well as the literally 1000s of students I taught over '2 years. In the many 1obs I had over the years 1)-- to 200- there were too many to even attempt a $ursory summary. It would re,uire too many words to give them ea$h and all their 1ust pla$e in this already lengthy statement. Perhaps at a future time I will try to fo$us on a small handful of the 1000s of people I have summari"ed in the above paragraph. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1cholars from many fields. I will write about only one although there have been so many that to dis$uss them below would re,uire many pages. I will deal with but one as an e&ample from the many possible ones. 9y prose and my poetry mentions many of these influen$es and readers who would li#e an e&tension of this se$tion are en$ouraged to read some of my several million words and more than (000 prose!poems. &rich Fromm/1)00!1)>00: Part '.2: 8romm was =erman so$ial psy$hologist psy$hoanalyst so$iologist humanisti$ philosopher and theorist who brought other theories together. Ke also emphasi"ed how a person's personality is embedded in $lass status edu$ation vo$ation your religious and philosophi$al ba$#ground and so forth. %in$e this autobiography and my personality is embedded to a great e&tent in these fa$tors that 8romm des$ribes it seems timely to start this first e&pression of than#s to s$holars with these words on 8romm. I read 8romm's boo#s off and on for thirty years. !6on Pri$e with than#s to

9i$hael 9a$$oby ;.he .wo :oi$es of Cri$h 8romm: .he Propheti$ and the +nalyti$ ; 1ociety, Iuly2+ugust 1))*. .he year I began my pioneering e&perien$e 1)62 Cri$h 8romm +meri$an psy$hoanalyst and prolifi$ writer in the field of e&istential psy$hology stated his '$redo' in his boo# (eyond the 2hains of Illusions. I have written some of his Aredo below sin$e it was $onsistent with my views ba$# in 1)62 and still is. I have $ommented on some of his Aredo e&pressing views that have remained part of my beliefs during this pioneering venture spanning as it does now more than fifty years. Part '.2.1: ;.he most important fa$tor for the development of the individual is the stru$ture and the values of the so$iety into whi$h he has been born.; =iven this fa$t my role as a 5aha'i has been to spend my life trying to build the #ind of so$iety fit for human beings to be born into. 8or as 8romm says in his Aredo ;so$iety has both a furthering and an inhibiting fun$tion. 4nly in $ooperation with others and in the pro$ess of wor# does man develop his powers only in the histori$al pro$ess do humans $reate themselves. 4nly when so$iety's aim will have be$ome identi$al with the aims of humanity will so$iety $ease to $ripple man and to further evil.; In attempting to transform so$iety 8romm underestimated the need for individuals to adapt to their so$iety. 8or the 5aha'i to be an effe$tive tea$her propagator of the 3ew %o$iety he has be$ome asso$iated with he needs to adapt to the larger so$iety in whi$h he has been born and in whi$h he lives his life. .he diffi$ulties I had in the first de$ade of my pioneering e&perien$e $ame it seems to me in retrospe$t from a slow adapting to my so$iety. 7ater in the following de$ades my effe$tiveness was due signifi$antly to my more effe$tive adapting to my so$iety. .his adaptive pro$ess is slow and arduous wor# and for 5aha'is it ta#es pla$e in the $onte&t of a$tion toward goals using a map provided by the 8ounders of their religion and the legitimate %u$$essors. ;I believe that every man represents humanity. We are different as to intelligen$e health and talents. Jet we are all one. We are all saints and sinners adults and $hildren and no one is anybody's superior or 1udge. We have all been awa#ened with the 5uddha we have all been $ru$ified with Ahrist and we have all #illed and robbed with =enghis @han %talin and Kitler. 9an's tas# in life is pre$isely the parado&i$al one of reali"ing his individuality and at the same time trans$ending it and arriving at the e&perien$e of universality. 4nly the fully developed individual self $an drop the ego.;

Perhaps this is one way of defining the nature of '+bdu'l!5aha and the reason for his effe$tiveness and effi$ien$y. !6on Pri$e Pioneering .)er Four & ochs ) 4$tober 2002. Part 3- I41TIT5TI.41 The Guardianshi and the 5ni)ersal House of /ustice are twin! institutions of the 5ahaHi 8aith that have guided my steps over my entire 5ahaHi life and have influen$ed my beliefs and a$tions in more ways than I $an $ount. .hey have also maintained the unity of this newest of the worldHs +brahami$ religions a unity whi$h is perhaps this 8aith's greatest a$hievement in a world in whi$h all the ma1or religions are fra$tured into a multitude of se$ts and $ults denominations and bran$hes divisions isms and wasms. .he Aentral 8igures of the 5ahaHi 8aith and their su$$essors %hoghi Cffendi and the Lniversal Kouse of Iusti$e have provided me with a $ore of ethi$al and moral dire$tions with spiritual and intelle$tual e&amples and models aims and purposes goals and meanings ways and means on how to live my life and $ontribute to the building of a new so$iety global and unified!!!a pro$ess that will ta#e several $enturies. Part *.1(aha6i %dministration%erving in various aspe$ts of the ele$ted and appointed side of (aha$i administration has been a learning e&perien$e from the word go. I have served on lo$al spiritual assemblies off and on sin$e 1)66. It has provided a wonderful opportunity to get to #now people in demanding personal $ir$umstan$es. .he 5aha'i 8aith is not one based on a passive $ongregationalism< it is not one with a $omforting and regular ritual that indu$es what is often a sort of aestheti$ religiosity a bit li#e a spe$tator! sport. 9u$h religion in the west what remains from the a$ids of se$ularism is something inherited from the wider so$iety but not something that one invests a great deal of thought. .he 5aha'i 8aith re,uires a mu$h more a$tive $ommitment. I $annot thin# of any other e&perien$e I have had with people that affords this parti$ularly useful invaluable lesson in understanding human $hara$ter than my $ommunity e&perien$e in the 5aha'i 8aith. +t the same time I must warn the student of human nature as the essayist William Ka"litt/1((>!1>'00 also warns that Mthe more I learn the less I understand

it.N .his is a $omple& and subtle ,uestion whi$h re,uires a separate essay to deal with its impli$ations. 4ne would hope that with the insights of over one hundred years of so$ial s$ien$e behind us we would have $ome to understand human#ind more. In some ways perhaps. .here is nothing that helps a man more in his travel through life than a 1ust understanding of his own $hara$teristi$ wea#nesses. In $onsulting for that is the term 5aha'is use for attempting a dispassionate and $ordial dis$ussion of issues at lo$al assembly meetings an individual is made more than a little aware of his inade,ua$ies his inabilities his utter ineptitudes in addition to his strengths. In my early years of assembly wor# until I $ame to +ustralia my main problem was fo$ussing suffi$iently on the topi$ at hand in order to ma#e a useful $ontribution. I got lost in the multitude of views. 4n$e I had mastered the problem of dealing with $omple&ity in the $onsultative pro$ess at least enough to deal with some of the sub1e$ts!!I went on to other s#ills. It had ta#en several hundred hours to get this far. I was a slow learner. @eeping my ego out of the way was always a $hallenge. 3ot dominating< not rea$ting to punitive rebuttals with my own heat were new problems for me by the 1)(0s. IHm still wor#ing on them. Iust as soon as I thin# IHm winning I get plastered again. It is a long road travelled and it #eeps the old ego ,uite manageable or should I say ni$ely tested on a wee#ly or fortnightly basis. I am now retired and parti$ipate in the $onsultative pro$ess of 5aha'i administration far less than I on$e did. Part *.2: Perhaps it is 1ust a sign of age or that familiarity breeds fatigue or that after three de$ades of serving with the aim of in$reasing the number of believers and getting a dis$ouragingly meagre response year after year but ennui $reeps in sometimes an engulfing weariness with it all. C&$ept for a short period of statisti$al su$$ess in the late 1)60s and early 1)(0s!!!it has been slow slogging. + $ertain persisten$e dedi$ation devotion to duty all $ome into play or one would simply wither on the vine. Aall it spiritual mus$le if you li#e. .he patien$e of Iob and the wisdom of %olomon are useful but in short supply. .he 5aha'i 8aith is li#e a large family and most people #now how diffi$ult families $an often be. It is also one reason why so many in our world stay $lear of parti$ipation in organi"ations e&$ept those they have to li#e: wor# and s$hool or interest groups li#e tennis $lubs sport

asso$iations and film so$ieties. When one reads about/Priceless Pearl p.*-10 about a spe$ial 5aha'i #nown as the =uardian and $omes to #now that he was M$alled by sorrow and a strange desolation of hopes into ,uietnessN the heart responds with a MyesON .he =uardian $omes $loser. .his is a revolution the 5aha'i 8aith with all the attributes of ordinariness and ,uietness. I am than#ful to have been part of this ,uiet revolution. I thin# that is one reason why those buildings on 9ount Aarmel lift my heart so. It has partly to do with hundreds of meetings in lounge rooms being spiritually dried out. 8aith as#s many things of the believer: one of these things is the need to endure these endless meetings. 8or some martyrdom in the West is asso$iated more with meetings than with 1ails bullets and physi$al perse$ution. %ome may find IHm overstating it. 8or them I probably am. In %hoghi CffendiHs first letter to +ustralia and 3ew Pealand he refers to Msevere mental testsN. %u$h tests ta#e many forms and IHm sure they are not over yet for us in this fourth epo$h seventy years after his letter. .hen of $ourse there were the multitude of meetings over * de$ades of paid employment and that is another story whi$h I will save readers from a detailed e&patiation. In those four de$ades there were many I have to than# and I do so later in this statement. Part -: Part -.1 %ustralian Go)ernment!!0e artment of Human 1er)ices .here are many government departments in +ustralia whi$h I must a$#nowledge and give than#s to. Perhaps the GK% is one whi$h has been of dire$t benefit to me at times when I have been unemployed. .hrough the agen$y of 2entrelin+ I was able to re$eive finan$ial benefit: /i0 for some > months in 1)()!>0 again /ii0 from >2')) to (2'0) on first unemployment benefit and se$ond disability benefit and finally: /iii0 from (2'0) to the present on an old!age pension. Part -.2 .ther Federal, 1tate and 'ocal Go)ernment 0e artments and

%gencies I will not list all of these se$tors and se$tions of the three levels of government in whi$h my life has been enmeshed in the *1 years I have lived in +ustralia 1)(1 to 2012. 3or will I list the similar agen$ies in Aanada in another form of federal parliamentary government where I lived my life from 1)*' to 1)(1. Part 7- '%4012%P&1 .he blea# and lonely lands$ape of 4ntario in winter and 5affin Island all year round southern 4ntarioHs ri$hly $oloured but parado&i$ally obdurate autumnal $anvas the hushed and howling drama of winterHs death with AanadaHs images of northness and seasonality and the $lean!red spa$iousness on all the old maps. +ustraliaHs searing heat glaring sunlight and vast empty lands$apes filled with spinife& and sand pre$ipitate me into a nostalgia whi$h helps to support my reality by filling my memories with spa$es that I on$e thought were ordinary but now in retrospe$t I find to be neither ordinary nor moderate. I have been intimidated by the relentless +ustralian sun that so often oppressed my spirit as I wal#ed through its vast territories and dusty gardens. .he free"ing '0 to -0 below temperatures on the i$y +r$ti$ tundra and the sunHs often unalleviated glare are now memories as if they were part of the e&perien$e of someone else. .here were and there are other lands$apes: /i0 many of whi$h have been brought into my life by $inema and .: whi$h I write about below and /ii0 others in both Aanada and +ustralia whi$h were far from blea# far from e&$essively hot or $old and far from remote. I will leave it to readers to google those pla$es those two do"en towns where I have lived in life and the more than 100 to whi$h I have travelled to read about the lands$ape and general geography. Part 8- (5I'0I4G1 .here have been many buildings both sa$red and se$ular that have strongly influen$ed my life and they stand now as memories and i$ons spa$es and pla$es with meaning and a $ertain sensory pleasure. .he buildings and gardens at the 5ahaHi world $entre in Kaifa Israel several 5ahaHi temples around the world many of the homes I have lived in beginning with my $hildhood and early adult life. .here are too a myriad pla$es of

ar$hite$tural delight too many to re$ount here whi$h with their histori$al settings and signifi$an$es influen$ed my life by providing individual mise en scenes settings of beauty and a $ertain wonder. In the years of my retirement from the age of -- to the present I have had the time and the leisure to en1oy the immense variety of buildings that were presented on art and ar$hite$ture programs on television: temples and $hur$hes mos,ues and religious buildings from history as well as the ar$hite$ture of many $ivili"ations and religions nations and $ultures. +fter nearly 1- years of being able to ta#e in su$h beauty in an organi"ed form by s$holars and $ommentators I have had my life enri$hed and these years of my retirement may have a long way to go to $ontinue this pro$ess of my aestheti$ and intelle$tual edu$ation. Part 9- PH.T.G*%PH1, M.:I&1, :I0&.1 %40 0:0s Preamble: I must e&press my appre$iation for the innumerable photos and movies videos and G:Gs. +lthough my e&perien$e with the print and ele$troni$ media: .: and $inema newspapers and maga"ines 1ournals and the internet $assette tapes and AGs G:Gs and videos!!what gradually be$ame a $ornu$opia of stimulating media!!began to $ome into my life insensibly and sensibly by 1)-0 the last 60Q years /1)-2!20120 have been immensely enhan$ed and refined by the $ontent of these media. I must a$#nowledge my than#s to the sour$es of this vast field of e&perien$e that resulted from their presen$e in my life. .he formal study of these media did not begin until my early '0s when I taught media studies at the 5allarat Aollege of +dvan$ed Cdu$ation now the university of 5allarat from 1)(6 to 1)(>. +gain in the 1)>0s and 1))0s at $olleges of te$hni$al and further edu$ation in northern +ustralia and then at the .hornlie .afe Aollege in Perth media studies be$ame a $urri$ulum sub1e$t on my agenda. When I retired from tea$hing in 1))) I #ept three ar$h!lever files of notes on media studies and in the do"en or so years sin$e 1))) to 2012 I have added several more files of notes and photo$opied material. .he visual $ontent of media in newspapers and maga"ines were part of my parents' e&perien$e and they be$ame part of mine perhaps un$ons$iously as early as 1)** when I was in the $radle. .he story of the relationship between the print and ele$troni$ media and my life over these seven

de$ades is a long and $omple& one. 3ow at the age of 6> I have a base /a0 in my files and on .: as well as /b0 on the internet for the study of this important part of my life and the life of my so$iety. .he only years I had mu$h to do with the formal study of film what is now $alled by several names: film studies $inema studies the history of film et $etera!!was when this formal study was part of a media studies $ourse that I taught at the .hornlie Aollege of .afe on two or three o$$asions in the early 1))0s. I drew on films video and .: programs in my tea$hing all the way ba$# to the 1)60s. It was not until I retired from tea$hing both 8. and P. as the new millennium turned its $orner that these volumes and a serious study of these mediums slowly emerged. .hey had begun they had their etiology as the medi$al world $alls beginnings with some notes notes I had ta#en for that $ourse I taught in .afe more than two de$ades ago in those early 1))0s. 5y 3ovember 2012 more than 1' years into my retirement these film studies and other media studies notes were e&panded. .hey had begun to o$$upy all of volumes four and five of my media studies files with three additional spe$ial 2!ring binders for :olume -.1 :olume -.2.1 dire$tors :olume -.2.2 +$tors and :olume -.' +$tors. .he material on the Internet was absolutely burgeoning in the field of film studies and impossible to $over in any systemati$ way be$ause of /a0 the wide ranging nature of my a$ademi$ interests and /b0 the limitations of time and $ir$umstan$e. 5y 3ovember 2012 too more than 1' years after retiring from full!time wor# and ta#ing a sea!$hange to .asmania I had notes on over -0 spe$ifi$ films and a$$ess to 1000s as well as notes on many spe$ifi$ a$tors and dire$tors. 9y study of the field of film studies had really only 1ust begunR the many aspe$ts of film and its history was $learly an interdis$iplinary field. %ome 60 years of Sthe moviesH provided a pleasure for whi$h I e&press my than#s and a$#nowledgements. Part 9,1- PH.T.G*%PH1 While growing up in Aanada and before leaving home and the region of southern 4ntario first in 1)662( and then in 1)(1 my mother and then my first wife too# a serious interest in ta#ing photos. In +ustralia before my divor$e in 1)(* my first wife Iudy $ontinued her interest in photography and had her own dar# room. +fter 1)(* until now 2012 nearly *0 years a series of people have

$ontributed their part in providing the photographi$ base for this album: /a0 the 5ahaHis for whom ta#ing photos may 1ust be their only ritual< /b0 my $onsanguineal family in Aanada and the two affinal families in my life one in Aanada and the other in +ustralia< and /$0 friends asso$iations wor# $olleagues et $etera in the many other $ommunities I was involved with in varying degrees during my life. 9ore re$ently of $ourse sin$e ta#ing an early retirement and returning to .asmania in 1))) as well as the opening of the new millennium in 2001 I have begun to re$eive more photos from: /a0 my 2nd affinal family the one here in +ustralia< /b0 my wifeHs $onsanguineal family and the affinal family from her first marriage< /$0 my first wifeHs 2nd affinal family the one from her se$ond marriage after she and I divor$ed in 1)(-< /d0 my $onsanguineal family in Aanada< /e0 people I met along the road of life 5ahaHis and non! 5ahaHis who have sent me photos sin$e this album had its embryoni$ e&isten$e in 1))2 and finally /f0 a new set of people I have only begun to meet sin$e moving to =eorge .own. I have always thought that ta#ing photos as a hobby a serious leisure a$tivity would be a good idea. 5y the 1))0s with $ameras be$oming more versatile and $heaper many were snapping more photos than ever not so mu$h in the way my first wife did with her dar# room and the study of photography as a serious leisure a$tivity but simply as a hobby so that more photos $ould be en1oyed by family and friends. Air$umstan$es other interests problems with the me$hani$al and te$hni$al aspe$ts of life and having others around who did the 1ob with enthusiasm always seemed to militate against my using the $amera and snapping photos. 7i#e many things in life the idea of ta#ing photos more fre,uently than on$e a year if that remained 1ust that: a good idea and it was never a$ted upon. It would seem in retrospe$t that print tal#ing and listening and other a$tivities leisure and non!leisure would o$$upy me!not ta#ing photographs not in the past and not in the future and the remaining years of my life. %u$h is life. 4thers should therefore be given $redit for the $ontents of this album. I only arranged the de$#!$hairs as they say these days. In the last years of my tea$hing $areer: 8. P. and volunteer tea$hing /1))2!200-0 this album had its first shaping and in the following two years 2006!200( this album assumed its present form. 4ne $an organi"e and reorgani"e photos li#e so many other things in life forever ad nauseam. +fter more than a do"en years of putting this folio of photos with their

several embellishments into a useful shape for the future I leave it now for other a$tivities that demand my attention and hold my interest to a greater e&tent. I am happy with the general arrangement here. If it is to have any long term value I feel these photos are now in a form that might be useful to posterity at least some element of a future age. .ime will tell what will be their long term use their longevity. Part 9,2- (..;1, 4&W1P%P&*1, M%G%<I4&1, /.5*4%'1, I4T&*4&T In the more than 60 years during whi$h reading has been a $riti$al part of my life 1)*) to 201' boo#s and newspapers maga"ines and 1ournals the internet and a world of print from too many sour$es to list here!!!!meaning and pleasure were brought to me through these mediums. It is a meaning and pleasure to whi$h I here give than#s and voi$e my a$#nowledgements to more resour$es and materials more writers and authors poets and essayists novelists and s$holars than I would want to list for fear of proli&ity and boredom for readers of this now lengthy Sthan#s and a$#nowledgementsH statement. It is impossible for me to ma#e an a$$urate re$ord or even a reasonable guesstimation of what might be $alled my reading re$ord sin$e 1)*) that mid!$entury mar#er that was my first year of #indergarten and the beginning of grade one. I have made a start at su$h a re$ord su$h a rough guesstimation though. +nd here it is: +. 5oo#s 6ead/i.e. s#immed or s$anned0: - 000 5. 5oo#s 6ead: entireTTTTTTT..........: - 000 A. 5oo#s Partly 6ead : 20 000 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.otal : '0 000 G. Poems 6ead/i.e. s#immed or s$anned0 : * 000 C. Poems 6ead: entireTTTTTTT............T: ' 000 8. Poems Partly 6ead : 6 000 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.otal : 1' 000 =. +rti$les 6ead/i.e. s#immed or s$anned0 :-0 000 K. +rti$les 6ead: entireTTTTTTT............:20 000 I. +rti$les Partly 6ead/12* or more0 :100 000 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.otal : 1(0 000 I. .otal number of items aboveT........TTT: 200 000/$ir$a0

!!!!846 946C %CA.I43% 5CJ43G .KI% 7+%. %CA.I43 P+6. >.2 =4 .4 .KC 3CV. P4%.!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!.KC 3CV. P4%. I% .KC 23G I.C9 I3 .KI% .K6C+G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU married for ** years a tea$her for '- a writer D editor for 12 and a 5aha'i for -2/in 20110 7ast edited by 6onPri$e on 8ri Ian 2- 201' *:1( pm edited '> times in total.

To *onPrice Post sub=ect- 6e: .K+3@% +3G +A@34W7CG=C9C3.%/Part 20 Posted- .hu 4$t 2- 2012 1:-> pm Part 9,#- 1.540 %40 M51I2 The radio and many other sources of sound like: hi-fis and cassette tapes, tele ision and film, especially their musical content! +. +ll of the above have played an important part in my life unli#e dan$e and plays the martial arts and sport!!!and of whi$h have been at best peripheral and short!lived e&perien$es. In primary s$hool from 1)-0 to 1)-( musi$ was a regular part of the $urri$ulum. 9y mother and father both played the piano sang in $hoirs had sing!alongs in our home with our family with friends and with the 5ahaHi $ommunity as I entered my late $hildhood in about 1)-'2*. We listened to $lassi$al musi$ around the house from my $on$eption in 4$tober 1)*' until my father died in 1)6-. 9y mother and I then moved into different flats. I then moved to another town in 1)66 and then another and then another $ountry< in the pro$ess this family musi$al e&perien$e ended and I began my life in a series of two affinal families ea$h with their musi$al e&perien$es. In the mid!to!late fifties I be$ame interested in ro$# and roll listened to it on the radio in my bedroom among other pla$es< in 1)6- I bought my first

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7P: 5arry 9$=uireHs .he Cve of Gestru$tion. 9y mother gave me the family $opy of .he 9essiah that same year and these two 7Ps laun$hed my $olle$tion. I pur$hased 7Ps and *-s as they were #nown until 1)(- by whi$h time I had a$$umulated some 60 7Ps and *-s. In 1)(- my first marriage ended and with it it seems in retrospe$t my pur$hase of re$ords and e&tensive listening to musi$ in my home. 5: Iudy my first wife and I never had a .: and listening to re$ords was an important part of our shared e&perien$e: 1)6(!1)('. In the following years I had to s$ale!ba$# my pur$hases of re$ords due to having to raise three $hildren and the in$reased $ost of re$ords. 9y se$ond wife and her two daughters were more interested in wat$hing .: engaging in sport and for various reasons li#e the fra$turing and diversity of our musi$al tastes and the birth of my only $hild listening to re$ords in my home seriously diminished by the mid!1)(0s. I started to learn to play the guitar in 1)6> after an unsu$$essful attempt at $lassi$al guitar in 1)622'. I taught musi$ in my role as a primary tea$her from 1)6( to 1)(1. In 1)>) I taught guitar to a $lass of +boriginal students at .hornlie .afe. I led sing!alongs from 1)6> to 1))) when I retired from the tea$hing profession. In 2000 I 1oined a small group of singers in =eorge .own to entertain residents in an aged $are fa$ility $alled +inslie Kouse in that same town the oldest town in +ustralia/1>0*0 and I $ontinued singing with that group until 9ay of 200-. In 200> I began to play the guitar and to lead those same residents in singalongs using my Msi&ties singalong musi$ boo#letN that I revised from earlier $olle$tions I had made as far ba$# as the 1)60s. In 2000 I also had a$$ess to some -0 AGs as part of my role of 5ahaHi radio program presenter on Aity Par# 6adio. 5y +pril 200- I had presented about 1-0 half hour programs and this a$tivity also $ame to an end that year. %u$h in summary is a brief history of my musi$al e&perien$e and I than# and a$#nowledge the many sour$es of meaning and pleasure whi$h have delighted my life. I have made a list of the pie$es of musi$ I have en1oyed most and it $an be found in my $omputer dire$tory my two!ring binder sing!along file and on the internet. I also have a list of all the re$ords I own in that same file. .his parti$ular musi$ file has four sub!se$tions divided into * sub!se$tions as follows: two popular musi$ se$tions and two $lassi$al se$tions. .hey $ontain separate lists of arti$les about musi$ arti$les I began to save in

1)>* but did not begin to save seriously until the year 2000. I opened this file for these arti$les and resour$es in 200* after twenty years of slowly a$$umulating the material. It be$ame a serious $olle$tion in the four years/200*!200>0 in my effort to write poetry with musi$al themes. In 200I divided the resour$es into: /a0 $lassi$al and /b0 popular and pla$ed them in separate files. In 2006 I opened a 1a"" se$tion/1.1.50 a sub!se$tion of the popular musi$ file. A: I should mention in $losing this introdu$tion that radio and television have played an important part in my musi$al e&perien$e beginning as far ba$# as 1)**. .his is not the pla$e to summari"e more than 60 years of radio and more than '- years of television and their respe$tive musi$al influen$es in detail. I should say though that in these first do"en years of my retirement 1))) to 2012 my musi$al e&perien$e $omes in the main from the +ustralian 6adio 3ational the 89 $lassi$al radio station. .: at an average now of 1 hour2day and some pop!musi$ from the lo$al radio station are also part of my musi$al fare. 4$$asionally I used to get an 7P bug and listen to $lassi$al musi$ from my $olle$tion of 7Ps but in 200( this $eased due to hi!fi te$hni$al problems. 4ne of my aims in these early years of my retirement is to integrate musi$ life's a$tivities and my religious beliefs in different ways in my poetry and in postings on the internet. .he resour$es in these files represent a base of information for this poeti$!writing e&er$ise whi$h I have found to be immensely stimulating. .he e&er$ise of listing oneHs favorite musi$ is no easy tas# after the passing of some seven de$ades. If a person is young say in their $hildhood or adoles$en$e the tas# is not as great. It may be better for su$h young people to wait for some years before ma#ing su$h a list waiting until they survive the perils of: /a0 their sporting interests /b0 their love life /$0 their 1ob life /d0 their other leisure pursuits /e0 their desires and passions wants and wishes as well as /e0 the many slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that inevitably $ome into life. In my lifetime there has $ome to be a world of sound in whi$h I $an drown happily or not!so!happily as the $ase may be. .he lists I made of my favorite musi$ $ontain some of the happier sour$es pie$es items songs inter alia that give me pleasure now and they did so at various times in my 6) years of life 1)*'!2012. G:

In the three year period Iune 2002 to 9ay 200- I $ompiled periodi$ally a list of my favourite musi$. It was an attempt to define to give e&pression to to list what had be$ome by then a vast sea of pleasurable sounds produ$ed in a number of genres of musi$. 9y first memories of listening to musi$ were in about 1)*> although I was e&posed to musi$ right from the word go in 1)*' by two parents who played the piano. I would post the full list here but it is too long. I would post here ;a short list; of nearly (0 years of musi$al e&perien$e musi$al pie$es I have en1oyed from a longer list of musi$ that gave me pleasure but it is also too long to in$lude. .his list is 1ust a start to ma#ing a $omprehensive outline a brief survey a dip in the sea so to spea#. .here are now over 1000 items in this full and $omprehensive list that I put together in the years 200- to 2011. If I $ontinue to add to this list systemati$ally and regularly the list will be$ome $ompletely unmanageable and ne$essitate far too mu$h of a fo$us on musi$ in my otherwise highly interdis$iplinary life. 5ut the names of many of my favourites are found below for my interest and o$$asionally to post at a website when others as# about my musi$al tastes. %in$e it seems impossible for me to remember the names of many of the pie$es this list helps assist me in bringing to memory these names when and if re,uired. .he e&er$ise is interesting to me in its own right without any parti$ular pra$ti$al value. +s I began adding every item to this list from what I heard on +5A 89 6adio in and after 2002 and on the internet it be$ame obvious that in the end the list would be$ome too long if I too# the e&er$ise seriously with any sense as I say of ma#ing a $omprehensive $olle$tion. What is found here serves as: /a0 a list of musi$al pie$es I own2have a$$ess to in my $olle$tion and /b0 a list of additional material I would li#e to have a$$ess to in my study but do not. +s I say this is a list of musi$al favourites that I will never bring to an end. .he sea is 1ust too full and I have listed only $lassi$al pie$es below. !6on Pri$e Pioneering .)er Four & ochs 7ast Lpdated on: 1) Iune 2011. C: 1.1 5a$h: %ymphony 3o.2 C!minor 1.2 5a$h: 5randenburg Aon$erto 3o.1 in 8< 12.2 3o.6 in 5 flat 9a1or< 3o' * 1.' 5a$h: =oldberg :ariations 1.* 5a$h: Iesu Ioy of 9an's Gesiring 1.- 5a$h: see my 20 re$ord $olle$tion of 5a$h!!too many to list here 2.1 5eethoven: %onata F> opus 1' and :iolin Aon$erto in G 4pus 61

2.2 5eethoven: %ymphonies: set 1!) espe$ially no.F2.' 5eethoven: Piano %onata 3o. 2' in 8 minor 4pus -(/+ppassionata0 2.* 5eethoven: Piano %onata 3o. 2* in 8F ma1or 4pus (> 2.- 5eethoven: Patheti,ue %onata Piano %onata 3o.> in A minor 4p.1' 2.6 5eethoven: 9oonlight %onata Piano %onata 3o.1* in A!sharp minor 4p.2(22. 2.( 5eethoven: Piano Aon$erto F-/Cmperor0 2.> 5eethoven: 8ur Clise/5agatelle 3o.2- in + minor =.1(' 2.) 5eethoven: 7eonora 4verture 3o.' 4pus (2 and (2a 2.10 5eethoven: Waldstein %onata Piano %onata 3o.21 in A ma1or 4p.-' 2.11 5eethoven: Piano .rio F( in 5 8lat 4pus )(/.he +r$hdu#e0 2.12 5eethoven: too many other pie$es of 5eethovenHs to list due to proli&ity '. 5erlio": %ymphony 8antasti,ue *.1 Iohannes 5rahms %ymphony 3o.1 in A!9inor *.2 5rahms Piano Aon$erto F 1 in G 9inor 4pus F 1-.1 8rederi$# Ahopin: %$her"o 1 2 ' and * < 11.2 5allads 1 to * -.2 Ahopin: 8antasy Impromptu in A sharp minor 4pus 66 -.' Ahopin 2* Preludes/AFminor +!8lat!9a1or0 -.* Ahopin Walt" 3o.( in A %harp minor 4pus 6*22 -.- Ahopin %tudy 3o.' in C ma1or 4pus 10 .ristesse -.6 Ahopin: Polonaise in + 8lat 4p. -' ;Keroi$; -.( Ahopin: 3o$turne 3o. 2 in C flat 4p. ) 3o. 2 -.> Ahopin: Ctude 4p.10 3o. ' in C -.) Ahopin: to list all of AhopinHs musi$ that I en1oy would lead to proli&ity 6.1 Alaude Gebussy: Alaire de 7une from the %uite 5ergamas,ue 6.2 Gebussy: Preludes M=irl With the 8la&en KairN among other preludes (.1 +nton Gvora#: 3ew World %ymphony (.2 Gvora#: %ymphony F' (.' Gvora#: Aello Aon$erto in 5 9inor op.10* (.* Gvora#: %ymphoni$ :ariations 4pus (> >. Cdvard =rieg Peer =ynt %uite 3o.1 ). 8rederi$# Kandel Water 9usi$ %uite 10. =abriel 8aure .he Pavane in 8!sharp minor opus -0 11. 8ran" Ioseph Kayden: Aon$erto in G. 9a1or 12. 8ran" 7is"t: Aon$erto 3o.1 in C 8lat 9a1or 12.1 7is"t: 7iebestraum 3o. ' in +!flat % -*1 2 III. 12.2 7is"t: Aonsolation for piano 3o. ' in G!flat 9a1or 12.' 7is"t: 7a Aampanella 12.* 7is"t: Kungarian 6hapsody F2 in A!%harp 9inor 1'. Kenry# 9i#oWa1 =Xre$#i /pronoun$ed =orets#y0 %ymphony F'. 1*. Iules 9assinet: 9editations 1-. 8eli& 9endelssohn %ymphony F* in +/Italian0 4pus )0

16.1 +madeus 9o"art: %onatas for Piano 16.2 9o"art: Givertimenti for strings +dagio D 8ugue in A 9inor 16.' 9o"art: Piano Aon$erto F20 in G minor @*66 16.* 9o"art: Piano Aon$ertos: other 16.- 9o"art: %ymphony F*0 in A minor 16.6 9o"art: too many other pie$es of 9o"art to list due to proli&ity 1(. =ia$omo Pu$$ini:4ne 8ine Gay 9adame 5utterfly 1>. 3i$oli 6ims#y!@orsa#ov: %$hehera"ade 1).1 %ergei 6a$hmaninoff: 6hapsody on a .heme of Paganini 1).2 6a$hmaninoff: Prelude in = 9inor 4pus 2' 3o.1).' 6a$hmaninoff Piano Aon$erto 3o.2 G 9inor 1).* 6a$hmaninoff: Prelude in A sharp 9inor 4p.' 3o.2 1).- 6a$hmaninoff: too many other pie$es of 6a$hmaninov to list due to proli&ity 20.1 Ioa,uin 6odrigo: C$os de %efarad!guitar 20.2 Ioa,uin 6odrigo: need to familiari"e myself with his repertoir 21. Cri# %atie: =ymnopedie 3o.1 22.1 8ran" %$hubert: 8antasie in 8. 9inor G )*0 22.2 %$hubert: +ve 9aria %ymphony F> in 5!minor 22.' %$hubert: 4$tet ?uintet in 8 ma1or/8or 2 violins viola $ello double bass $larinet horn and bassoon0 22.* %$hubert: Impromptu 3o.' in = flat ma1or G.>))24p.)0 22.- %$hubert: Impromptu 3o.( in C flat ma1or opus 6 22.6 %$hubert: Impromptu 3o.( in C!flat ma1or opus )0 no.2 22.( %$hubert: %tring ?uartet F1*: Geath of a 9aiden G >10 22.> %$hubert: %tring ?uintet in A. 22.) %$hubert: Piano .rios in C 8lat 9a1or G )2) and >)( 22.10 %$hubert: Piano ?uintet In + ma1or: '.rout' G66( 22.11 %$hubert: Impromptu in + 8lat 9a1or. 4p. )0 3o. * 2'.1 6obert %$humann: Aon$erto in +!9inor 2'.2 %$humann: %ymphonies 1!* 2'.' %$humann: Ctudes 2'.* %$humann: 6oman$e :iolin 2'.- %$humann: 8airy .ales for :iola and Piano 2'.6 %$humann: violin $on$erto op 1'* d minor 2'.( %$humann: 9ondna$ht 2'.> %$humann: .raumerie 2*.1 Pyotr Ilyi$h .$hai#ovs#y: %ymphony 3o.6 in 5 9inor 2*.2 .$hai#ovs#y: :iolin Aon$erto G 9a1or 2*.' .$hai#ovs#y: Piano .rio in + 9inor 4pus -0 2-. +ntonio :ivaldi: :iolin Aon$erti F'< trumpet $on$erti for * violins 8:

.here were over -0 AGs in the 7aun$eston 5ahaHi $ommunity files by 200-. I played them for several years as Mpresenter of programsN on Aity Par# 6adio. I have none of these in my personal $olle$tion. I have listed elsewhere these -0 AGs. .hese -0 AG% had many individual songs that I $ame to en1oy and $ould list them as favourites. I give than#s to those who $reated the musi$ and a$#nowledge the pleasure they have given me. +fter having musi$ in my life for nearly (0 years/1)*'!20120 and after $olle$ting re$ords for *0 years/1)6-!200-0 the time finally arrived to inde& the $olle$tion I had a$,uired. 5y 200- musi$ in the form of AGs at least for me were repla$ing 7Ps as a sour$e of new re$orded musi$. + separate $olle$tion of some 1- AGs is now found in the $hest of drawers near the radio in the dining room. Aassette tapes had begun to be a sour$e of musi$ already by the 1)60s and I now have some '0 $assette tapes found in that same pla$e in the dining!room. .his inde& does not in$lude these AGs and the $assette tapes or indeed the ' mini!dis$s a$,uired when I was a presenter of programs at Aity Par# 6adio from 2001!200*. +t a future time I hope to inde& the AGs and the $assette tapes. 9u$h of the material on the AGs the $assette tapes and the mini!dis$s is not musi$ but other types of re$orded resour$es: tal#s radio programs et $etera. .here are three se$tions for the re$ords in this $olle$tion found in my study: /+0 popular /50 $lassi$al and /A0 *-s. Part 9,3-1&*:I2&1 To the organi"ations, institutions, and pro iders of ser ices %in$e this list is 1ust about endless: $ar salesmen and $ar repairmen dog $at$hers and dentists fashion designers and florists newsagents and nurses psy$hologists and psy$hiatrists inter alter!!I will fo$us on one whi$h over my lifetime has been invaluable: do$tors and spe$ialist do$tors li#e psy$hiatrists. I have written an e&tensive appre$iation of them and readers $an google 6on Pri$e bipolar disorder for a )0 000 word statement of the details. Part >,1- &0IT.*1 %40 2.M&4T%T.*1 To the editors of my writing and the many who ha e commented on my writing! Preamble:

I have had many tea$hers and tutors le$turers and professors people who have given me advi$e about and $riti$ism of my writing from the 1)-0s to the 21st $entury. 5etty Aonow and 5ill Washington both editors< 6oger White and Gouglas 9artin both writers!!!have offered me advi$e a great deal in the $ase of 5ill and 1ust a little in the $ase of Gouglas. +n editor it has been said is someone who #nows more about writing than writers but they have es$aped the terrible desire to write. %in$e publishing in $yberspa$e from say 200* to 2012 I have re$eived a great deal of advi$e from many of those who have es$aped su$h a desire. I have written the following brief essay to pla$e all this advi$e and editing $riti$ism and $ommentary in a general $onte&t. It is a $onte&t of than#s and a$#nowledgements. .he first $riti$ism of my writing at least the $riti$ism that I remember was in 1)-0 when I was in grade one in the then small town of 5urlington 4ntario. 5urlington was nestled at the heel of what was then and is still $alled southern 4ntarioHs =olden Korseshoe. .he town is and was 1ammed right at the left!hand end of 7a#e 4ntario. IHm sure I re$eived $riti$ism of my s$ribbling in the three years before that in my early $hildhood from my family members and playmates perhaps as early as 1)*( when I was three or four years old and $olouring or printing my first words on paper. I have no memories of that in$oming $riti$ism no memories until as I say 1)-0. .hat was more than 60 years ago: 1)-0 to 2012. I do have memories of $riti$ism of my behaviour as early as the age of four in 1)*> when my father applied a wooden hair!brush to my bare bottom as he was as#ed to do by my mother for some misdemeanour a behavioural indis$retion the details of whi$h are now long forgotten. When one is a student as I was from 1)*) to 1)(0 in Aanada and in +ustralia from 1)(* to 1)>> re$eiving $riti$ism of what one writes is part of the $ore of the edu$ational pro$ess. %ometimes that $riti$ism is fair and helpful< sometimes it is un#ind and destru$tive. It is not my intention here to provide a detailed outline of those several de$ades of $riti$ism of my writing. In general though the $omments on my writing $overed the $omplete range: praise of my writing that saw it as the best of the best to $riti$ism indi$ating I was among the worst of the worst. Part >,2 TH& T*%41ITI.4 T. W*ITI4G .4 TH& I4T&*4&T Carly in this new this third millennium in 200* to be pre$ise I began to

re$eive written $riti$ism of my prose and poetry on the internet. I had re$eived $riti$ism verbal and written of my unpublished writing from 1)-0 to 1)(* and of my published writing from 1)(* to 200* during whi$h time I was able to publish some 1-0 essays in newspapers and maga"ines newsletters and in!house publi$ations where I wor#ed in several towns and $ities in +ustralia. Writing had be$ome by the 1)(0s a more $entral fo$us to my life mu$h more $entral than it had ever been although it had always been $entral in one way or another at least as I say above sin$e 1)-0. 5eing on the re$eiving end of $riti$ism in $yberspa$e has been in some ways 1ust a $ontinuation of the first half!$entury say grade * in 1)-* to 200* of $omments by tea$hers and students by supervisors and the general publi$ on what I had written. %ome readers have been so impressed with my writing that they have as#ed for more poured praise and e&pressed their enthusiasm. >,# I4T&*4&T 2*ITI2I1M ).'.1 .he 5ullies: .he internet though is full of lumpen bully!boys who prowl the blogosphere. %ome of the bully!boys and girls!!for bullying is not $onfined to the male genderRdo all their wor# at one site and they have literally thousands of posts at that site. If they see someoneHs ego getting out of hand or if they 1udge some new site parti$ipant as not fitting into the site $onventions in some way or other they ma#e it their 1ob to $ut them down to si"e thus intimidating many a potential site writer and poster. %o be warned writers at internet sites need to be $ons$ious of site $onventions and initially anyway not post items that $hallenge what you might $all the siteHs orthodo&y. %u$h internet bullies remind me of some of the tea$hers I have wor#ed with in my -0 years in $lassrooms. %u$h tea$hers saw their role as pushing and pulling all their students into line by the e&er$ise of their authority. 4n the site boards as internet sites are often $alled where site a$tivists live and have their being the authority of site administrators and moderators is e&er$ised li#e a heavy $lub an iron fist. .hey see their tas# as one of ensuring the maintenan$e of site rules and routines $onventions and styles. M3ewbies N as new members are often $alled must fall in or ship out. .his Ssite!orthodo&yH whi$h prevails is important for a new poster to be$ome familiar with and be$ome familiar fast if he does not want his emotions trashed stepped on with little #nowledge of what some $all awareness of

emotional intelligen$e and eti,uette of e&pression. ).'.2 .he 8undamentalists: .here are a wide range of hysteri$al se$ularists what I have $ome to $all the se$ular fundamentalists who proliferate among the immense $ommentariat that is the internet. .hey are not unli#e many of the so!$alled 5ible!bashers that fill out global so$iety by the millions. .here are also the dogmati$ Islamists and Ahristian fundamentalists among others who want to impose their absolutes on others. .hey try to infli$t or perhaps promote their interpretation of the ?uran or the 5ible on the rest of the 9uslim or Ahristian $ommunities respe$tively. >,#,# 2*ITI2I1M %40 P*%I1&- WH%T W*IT&*1 4&&0 9y e&perien$e on the internet in the last de$ade 200* to 2012 is 1ust a $ontinuation of those de$ades of $riti$ism and of $ourse praise that I had already re$eived. MWriters N as the famous +meri$an novelist 8. %$ott 8it"gerald said so su$$in$tly over dinner in the film entitled 7ast Aall Mmust get used to $riti$ism.N +fter de$ades of e&tensive writing in many pla$es in the publi$ domain I must agree with this entre deu& guerres writer< $riti$ism is part of the air that writers breath and espe$ially is this true on the internet for writers li#e myself who have lots of readers. I do not as# for $riti$ism e&$ept at a few writersH and poetsH sites whose purposes among others is to provide $onstru$tive useful $riti$ism. I do not as# for praise. .hereHs nothing wrong with praise itself and when it $omes I feel en$ouraged. 5ut lip!servi$e and flattery are $heap substitutes for praise when no praise is deserved. People who are addi$ted to praise will ta#e what they $an get and lap it up with enthusiasm. .he want of praise is a $omple& psy$hologi$al and an entirely different matter. If one falls into the trap of $onstantly see#ing approval validation and re$ognition from other people as the primary way to determine oneHs self! value one loses the ability to generate oneHs own self!value. +fter years of getting plenty of praise from my parents and tea$hers and then my students friends and $olleagues I no longer $ontinue to rely on other people to buoy my self!esteem. %in$e I also re$eived my fair share of $riti$ism in the first -0 years of my writing life I am aware of my limitations as well as my talents and $apa$ities. I am also aware that personal sustained and intelligent effort is essential to ba$#!up any already a$,uired or natural abilities what one writer $alls unmerited gra$e. .he pro$ess of s#ill!a$,uisition at least in the

area of writing and at least as I have e&perien$ed it in more than half a $entury is gradual a daily e&er$ise not a $onstant nor linear but e&ponential pro$ess until a saturation point is rea$hed. 3o one fa$ulty produ$es results and #nowledge love and will are what you might $all the three pre!re,uisites to produ$e results./20 .he relian$e on e&ternal praise $an grow to the point that whenever someone praises you even in the smallest way you feel a rush of elation the feeling that Msomeone out there values my e&isten$e.N +s the famous psy$hiatrist :i#tor 8ran#l on$e said: M%u$$ess li#e happiness $annot be pursued< it must ensue.N' .his applies a fortiori to writing. %ome writers only want praise but after living Gownunder for more than *0 years I have $ome to e&pe$t and even en1oy a little $riti$ism. Ariti$ism is part of the air one breaths here in +ustralia. >,#,3 'IT&*%*? T?*%4T1 7iterary tyrants people who are going to tell you where and when why and how you have gone wrong in no un$ertain terms without min$ing their words or pulling any pun$hes without what you might $all an eti,uette of e&pression and ta$t have always $ome in all sorts of shapes and si"es. 4ne must learn to deal with them in one way or another as their $riti$isms $ome your way in the daily round. .here are many 94s modus operandi to use a term from the who!dun!its for dealing with the harsh and not so harsh words of others. 4f $ourse it is not only writers who have to deal with $riti$al tongues and words in many forms. + vast literature now abounds on how to deal with this reality of life. Aourses are mounted in edu$ational and other servi$e institutions to help people deal with this pervasive reality of everyday life in the mi$ro and ma$ro worlds whi$h we all inhabit. >,#,@ THI1 7AAA W.*0 &11%?- % P%51& T. *&F'&2T I dis$uss below in this 6000 word essay the rea$tions to $riti$ism of two famous writers: one from the 1)th and one from the 20th $entury. .heir rea$tions throw light onto my own way of dealing with this inevitable reality of e&isten$e if one is as I am a writer and author an editor and publisher a poet and a 1ournalist a resear$her and independent and sometimes not!so!independent s$holar a man of words a writer of belles! lettres a person with belletrist $on$erns. 8or many writers the term belles! lettres is used in the sense to identify literary wor#s that do not fall easily into the ma1or literary $ategories su$h as: fi$tion poetry drama short story inter alia but haveRat least in some ways!!a more aestheti$ fun$tion or purpose. 9u$h of my writing has be$ome in the last thirty years 1)>1 to 2011 sin$e the very helpful treatment of lithium for my bi!polar disorder a

hybrid that does not easily and $omfortably fit into the ma1or $ategories of writing. +nd so it is that after more than si&ty years 1)*) to 2012 of having to deal with the phenomenon of $riti$al feedba$# of my written wor# I pause here to refle$t on the in$oming $riti$ism of what I have written over those years on what I now write and on what I hope to write. I pause and refle$t on the e&perien$e of two other writers below writers who lived in the last two $enturies writers of fame and mu$h su$$ess if not in the popular press or populist literary idioms. at least in some ,uarters!!!if not in the popular and >,#,7 The &Bam le of 'aura *iding In 1)'6 right at the start of the 5ahaHi tea$hing Plan a Plan in whi$h I have been engaged in a host of ways for nearly si&ty years 1)-' to 2011 the +meri$an poet 7aura 6iding/1)01!1))10 wrote to a $orrespondent: ;I believe that mis$on$eptions about oneself whi$h one does not $orre$t but where it is possible to $orre$t a$t as a bad magi$.N .hat bad magi$ has been at wor# on the reputation of 7aura 6iding for many years for well over (0 years. 4ne of the $riti$isms leveled at 6iding in her later life or more a$$urately simply a $omment about 6iding!!and repeated re$ently by the renowned literary $riti$ Gr. Kelen :endler!!was that 6iding ;spent a great deal of time writing tena$ious and e&tensive letters to anyone who in her view had misrepresented some aspe$t no matter how minute of her life or writing.;* :endler a leading +meri$an $riti$ of poetry found 6iding ;more than a little monomania$al N in relation to $riti$ism of her wor#. Gespite advan$ed age and failing health 6iding $ontinued her vigorous and valiant one might even say fanati$al attempt to halt the spread of mis$on$eptions about herself and her writing to the very end of her life. 5ut the ;bad magi$; was too powerful to be over$ome. In$identally this view of $riti$ism that 6iding held the view that it was Mbad magi$ ; was held by a woman who was also a$$used of being a wit$h and of e&er$ising a literary wit$h$raft by some of her more "ealous $riti$s. Why was 6iding so s$rupulous in her attempts to $orre$t mis$on$eptions of her life and writing no matter how minuteB It was partly at least be$ause she re$ogni"ed the importan$e of details to the understanding of human $hara$ter. ;.he details of human nature are never a matter of infinitesimals ; she wrote in an essay published in 1)(*. ;Cvery last

$omponent of the human $ourse of things is a true fra$tion of the personal world refle$ting a little its general $hara$ter.; %he li#e many other writers and non!writers it should be added never wel$ome $riti$ism. %ome rea$t to the slightest $riti$ism li#e a $ornered wild$at and others li#e a bar#ing dog. Writing it seems to me is something li#e biography whi$h as 8reud notes in some general remar#s on the sub1e$t found in :olume VVI/1)2(!1)'10 of .he %tandard Cdition of the Aomplete Psy$hologi$al Wor#s of %igmund 8reud/Kogarth Press 7td. 7ondon 1)61 p.2110 Mdoes not throw any light on the riddle of the mira$ulous gift that ma#es an artist.N %till it seems to me that biography and writing parado&i$ally do throw some light on the man and I $omment on this reality of life in this short essay. 9y approa$h to in$oming $riti$ism is more diverse than 6idingHs not as $onsistently intense and defensive not as sensitive to infinitesimals not li#e that wild$at or that bar#ing dog. %ometimes I ignore the $omment< sometimes I am tena$ious and write an e&tensive response< sometimes I write something brief and to the point. %ometimes I deal with the $omment with some attempt at humour sar$asm and wit if I $an lo$ate these $lever sorts of written repartee in my intelle$tual and sensory emporium. Part 10: I3.C63C. 7+3=L+=C Punitive rebuttals abound on the internet often la$ed with the 8 the A or the % words inve$tives from the younger generations who have grown up with these words of abuse. + mu$h larger vo$abulary of blasphemy and blame $an now be found in the print and ele$troni$ media more than in any previous generation at least in modern history. %ometimes ta#ing umbrage at the use of these forms of vilifi$ation and vituperation in $yberspa$e is appropriate and sometimes it is not. I $ertainly agree with 6iding that oneHs writing should not be 1udged by some infinitesimals but it is diffi$ult when one writes e&tensively in the publi$ domain in or out of $yberspa$e not to be 1udged by all sorts of things of whi$h infinitesimals are but one of the many. .he only way to avoid $riti$ism and to be totally safe is not to sti$# oneHs head above the ground of $yberspa$eHs highly varied terrain: 1ust donHt write anything or even better stay with reading boo#s wat$hing .: and en1oying other forms of the print and ele$troni$ media. 1A,1 Mar+ing Pa ers 6iding of $ourse did not have to deal with the world!wide!web. Kers was a more refined and elitist a$ademi$ and 1ournalisti$ literary and s$holarly world. Kers was a world I inhabited for many a year as both a student and

tea$her as a le$turer and tutor. I wrote more essays than I $are now to $ount and I mar#ed so many that by the time I too# an early retirement at the age of -- I $an honestly say that I suffered from what I $ame to $all print!glut. When one has to read more than 200 pages of student wor# every wee# and do this for years mar# it for spelling and grammar errors for $ontent and ,uality one needs an energy and enthusiasm whi$h tends for most tea$hers to get worn!down at the edges. +nd this is to put the problem mildly. I found I was 1ust about ill with mental fatigue when I fa$ed a large pile of papers or s$ripts as they are variously $alled and whi$h re,uired mar#ing by the time I $ame to ta#e an early retirement. 5y the time I $ame to pull!the!plug and ta#e a sea!$hange as it is $alled Gownunder in the +ntipodes my role as $riti$ of the writing of students had lost all its oils and 1ui$es. I was ready to be farmed!out ready to go out to pasture where mar#ing was to be seen no more. 9y feedba$# to students and writers on the internet is nowhere near as e&tensive now as it on$e was for me as a tea$her. I am en1oying my sea!$hange my being out!to!pasture so to spea#. #$!% &eedback &rom 'thers 'n the (nternet +fter eight years from 200* to 2012 of re$eiving #eeping and filing some of the written and $riti$al feedba$# sent to me by readers on the internet I must $on$lude that thusfar the negative feedba$# I have re$eived has been useful in ad1usting the nature of my posts. .he $riti$ism I have re$eived at a multitude of sites at whi$h I post helps me to ad1ust my $ontributions to suit the administrators and moderators the parti$ipants and interlo$utors who fill the $yberspa$e pla$es at these world!wide!web lo$ations. Ca$h site is in some ways li#e a game!board with its rules and routines its $onventions and $odes. It too# me at least a de$ade to fully grasp this reality. Cven then site administrators and moderators are not always ta$tful in dealing with what they see as your insensitivity to their siteHs modus vivendi way of doing things. 9ost of the feedba$# I have re$eived in these seven years that has been viewed in a negative light tends to see my posts as: too long!winded not relevant or appropriate. .hey raise the ha$#les of some readers be$ause they were seen as boring or indeed one of many a pe1orative ad1e$tive. I thought this personal statement here this brief overview analysis and $omment would be a useful summary of both the in$oming $riti$ism I have re$eived in the last seven years and my views on that $riti$ism. .he negative feedba$# was in the 10Y range and )0Y of my literary $ontributions or posts as they are usually $alled in $yberspa$e have

re$eived various forms of appre$iation. %ome people on the internet let you #now as I have already indi$ated above and in no un$ertain terms what they thin# of your posts. 8ran#ness $andour inve$tive harsh $riti$ism indeed $riti$ism in virtually every $on$eivable form $an be found in the intersti$es of $yberspa$e if one writes as mu$h as I do at more than >000 lo$ations among the 260 million sites and *.6 billion sub1e$ts topi$s or items of information at last $ount that are now in e&isten$e in that world of $yberspa$e. In the last seven years I have been on the re$eiving end of everything imaginable that someone $an say negatively about someoneHs writing and someone. .his negative feedba$# has been as I say useful and I have tried to respond in ways that improve readersH opinions of my wor# and sometimes of me. %ometimes I am su$$essful in these efforts of e&planation and of self! 1ustifi$ation of defen$e and argument of apologeti$s and apology and sometimes I am not. %u$h are the perils of e&tensive writing and human intera$tion< indeed su$h are the perils of living unless one is a hermit and does oneHs own plumbing and ele$tri$al wor# never goes shopping and relies only on the produ$ts of oneHs garden for food. Internet intera$tion li#e intera$tion everywhere else in life is a learning e&perien$e. .he faster one learns the better and if you donHt learn you get hit again and again with the same $riti$ism. 6egret and remorse in writing and in living $an be and are useful means of learning from e&perien$e and so of $ourse $an praise and popularity. 1A,# Isaiah (erlin and I)an Tergene) .o draw now on a se$ond writer and how he dealt with $riti$ism I introdu$e %ir Isaiah 5erlin/1)0)!1))(0. Ke was a leading politi$al philosopher and historian of ideas before his death as the 2nd millennium was about to turn the $orner to the 'rd. In a le$ture 5erlin gave in 1)(0 on the 6ussian poet Ivan .urgenev 5erlin pointed out that this famous 6ussian writer altered modified and tried to please everyone in some of his wor#s. +s a result of this desire to please his $riti$s one of the $hara$ters in his boo#s Msuffered several transformations in su$$essive drafts up and down the moral s$ale as this or that friend or $onsultant reported their impressions.N 5erlin went on to say in that same le$ture that .urgenev was infli$ted by intelle$tual wounds as a result of the $riti$ism of his wor#s by others wounds that festered in varying degrees of intensity depending of $ourse on the nature of the $riti$ism for the rest of .urgenevHs life. .urgenev was

atta$#ed by writers and $riti$s of many persuasions on the 7eft and the 6ight of the politi$al spe$trum in those days when these politi$al demar$ations had more $lear and understandable $hara$teri"ations. .his 6ussian novelist/1>1>!1>>'0 possessed 5erlin noted a $apa$ity for depi$ting Mthe multipli$ity of interpenetrating human perspe$tives that shade imper$eptibly into ea$h other nuan$es of $hara$ter and behaviour motives and attitudes.N- .urgenev li#e 6iding $ould never bear the wounds he re$eived from in$oming $riti$ism of his writing in silen$e. Ke shoo# and shivered under the $easeless $riti$isms to whi$h he e&posed himself so 5erlin informs us. Pleasing others of $ourse is important for any writer if he or she is to win a pla$e of su$$ess among tea$hers and tutors supervisors and those in the general publi$. .his is 1ust as true on the world!wide!web. 5ut there is also and without doubt for millions of internet parti$ipants a new found freedom of e&pression that $yberspa$e provides. Part of this freedom at least for me is due to the advantages and pleasures of age. 3ow in the early evening of my life these middle years/6- to (-0 of late adulthood as some human development theorists refer to the period in the lifespan from 60 to >0 with 1obs and employment positions far behind me no one $he$#s what I write before my offerings go into the bright lights and pi&elated pages of $yberspa$e. 9y own editing pen is #ept busy of $ourse and I $an edit as mu$h or as little as I desire. Cditing has never been one of my favorite a$tivities and I tend to rush this part of the writing 1ob at least initially. I then revise or alter subtra$t or add delete and generally edit in a multitude of ways as a result of in$oming $omments both the en$omium and the opprobrium. %ometimes I ma#e no $hanges at all to my initial internet post. +fter a de$ade of writing in $yberspa$e and on the several editions of my website there is little doubt that I do more editing of my wor# than ever before. .his may be for many reasons: age freedom from employment more leisure! timeRI $ould add several more reasons. +fter my writing gets onto the world!wide!web: it is ignored $riti$i"ed diagnosed interpreted sub1e$ted to hair!splittings and logi$!$hoppings by readers and posters moderators and administrators who inhabit the plethora of internet sites. I am on the re$eiving end of inve$tive and ignominy negative appraisals and a$$usations of nefariousness. I am assailed with a$rimony berating and blame blasphemy and bi$#ering $astigation and $ensure $ondemnation and $ontumely denun$iation and diatribe epithet and oblo,uy philippi$ and reproa$h revilement and sar$asm s$urrility and

tirade tongue!lashing and vilifi$ation. I am given more advi$e than I have re$eived at home from those I love and who love me as well as my students and friends over a lifetime of seven de$ades. .he main advantage that all of this in$oming and negative feedba$# is that it helps me to alter what I write at a site whi$h ta#es me on and $riti$i"es virtually everything I $ontribute and has no word of praise for what I write. %u$h a negative rea$tion helps me to ad1ust: /a0 my future entry pro$esses sites and /b0 how I $ontinue the nature of my parti$ipation at that site. Writing on the internet is a learning pro$ess as writing is in any other form of the print and ele$troni$ media. .he $riti$ism I re$eived as a student and tea$her in the last half of the twentieth $entury goes on in pithy paragraphs and senten$es phrases and single words at the several thousand internet sites where my millions of words are now published!!!to $hoose what seems to me to be an apt word for the nature and e&tent of my internet $ontributions the pla$es that my words o$$upy in the many $oloured and bla$#!and!white pi&elated pages the publi$ spa$es in $yberspa$e. I am viewed!!!to $ontinue to summari"e the in$oming $riti$ism I re$eive!!! as ta$tless and insensitive awfully boring and told where to get off where to go where to go for further writing $ourses to help me in my literary vo$ation and avo$ation. %ometimes I am told why I should dis$ontinue the pra$ti$e of writing entirely. I am also told what a wonderful inspiration my writing is. Aompliments and a$$laim flattery and praise abound. .hese words of en$omium and opprobrium that I re$eive as I say are really not mu$h different than< indeed are mu$h the same as the words many other writers get when their words are found between hard and soft $overs. I am not alone in re$eiving $riti$ism. Cven the writings of %ha#espeare the 5ible and other ma1or wor#s in the western literary $anon get great bu$#ets of $riti$ism poured on them from the generations whi$h have $ome on the s$ene sin$e the post!world!war!2 years from those now 6- and over and 6- and under to sele$t two $onvenient timeframes $overing as it does everyone. 9ost of those who offer me their $riti$isms of my literary efforts and my opinions my responses to what others write and the inevitable and myriad $ontentious issues that abound in $yberspa$e most of them are from the MJN and the MPN generations those born from the mid!1)(0s onward. .he MJN generation was born between the mid!1)(0s to the first years of the 2000s. .hese generation!J people are today's teens 20s and '0s the

millennial generation the net generation. %ome say that generation!V are those born between 1)(* and 1)>0. .he fine!tuning of these generational labels gets a bit $omple&. .he first generation who have grown!up with internet a$$ess the years 1))0 to 2010 have a wide range of personality $onstru$ts. .hese people are sometimes $alled the P!generation and I would re,uire a separate statement to dis$uss in suffi$ient detail their internet their personality typologies. .here are though some generalities about the generations I deal with whi$h are helpful in an analysis and des$ription. .hese generalities may help a person deal with the individuals one $omes a$ross at internet sites as I do but my $omments on them will not be detailed here. I $ould benefit as I go along here from the assistan$e of one 6ob Aowley affe$tionately #nown in publishing $ir$les ba$# in the seventies and early eighties as Mthe 5oston slasher.N .here is little doubt that I might benefit from him ta#ing a wor# li#e my - volume memoire whi$h is about twelve times the length of the average novel or twi$e the length of War and Pea$e. I have not be blessed or $ursed as some writers are by total re$all. Kis editing was regarded in some $ir$les as $onstru$tive and deeply sensitive. If he $ould amputate several do"en pages several thousand words of my e&plorations on the net with minimal agony to my emotional e,uipment IHm sure readers would be the benefi$iaries. .he e&perien$e of editing some of my wor# it seems to me is not unli#e that of a man attempting to hang on to the fin of a plunging whale. Lnli#e the writer .homas Wolfe though I would not find the $utting painful. I would not as Wolfe did ta#e my boo# away from su$h an editor. 3either would I li#e Crnest Kemmingway deal with my editor with any bullying arrogan$e or patheti$ inse$urity. I would not be shattered by whatever $riti$ism or aggressive editing $ame my way nor would I be tou$hier than someone with a fresh burn. 5ut alas I thin# that fine editor 5ob Aowley is dead. I did find two editors one a $opy!proof!reader and friend who does not slash and burn but leaves one's soul ,uite inta$t as he wades through my labyrinthine passages smooths them all out and e&$ises undesirable elements. 5ut this editor is in the late evening of his life and after editing several hundred pages of my writing he has tired of the e&er$ise prefers gardening and his own writing and so I am left on my own. .he other editor I found was a generous soul on the internet who wor#ed free!of!$harge for me for over a year. 5ut other life obligations eventually too# him away. Perhaps one day I may assume the role that Aowley e&er$ised so well in his

life in 5oston as .he %lasher but I thin# it unli#ely. %everal people have already as#ed me to edit their wor# and I have de$lined. I thin# all the reading the mar#ing and editing of those 200 pages of student wor# per wee# brought my role as editor of the wor# of others to an end. In the meantime and without the servi$es of professional editors I advise readers not to hold their breath waiting for me to do what is a ne$essary edit. I often edit the writing of others when it is only a page or two but it is not an e&er$ise I en1oy after having edited student wor# for more than three de$ades and my own writing for more than five. 1A,3 The Process of (aha$i *e)iew and *e)iew (y .thers +fter more than si&ty years/1)*)!20120 then of having my writing poured over by others< after nearly fifty years/1)6*!20120 of having my writing reviewed before its publi$ation by 5ahaHi reviewing $ommittees and institutions at national and regional as well as lo$al levels of 5ahaHi administration and even by some individuals and groups at the 5ahZ'[ World Aentre in Kaifa Israel< after trying to write in a way that would please various groups of people both within the 5ahaHi $ommunity and without by $ommittees and $olleagues professors and tutors students and tea$hers at a multitude of edu$ational institutions!!!before my writing saw the light of day in some in!house publi$ation or publi$ newsletter some maga"ine or 1ournal some newspaper or periodi$al I have $ome to espe$ially en1oy writing on the internet. .he 3ational %piritual +ssembly of the 5ahZH[s of +ustralia In$. the nationally ele$ted body by the 5ahZ'[ $ommunity in +ustralia does not re,uire writers li#e myself to have their writing reviewed before it goes onto the internet. .he 6eview 4ffi$e of the 3%+ of the 5ahaHis of the L%+ has given me permission to post my wor#s on the internet although they have advised that review is ne$essary if I want to pla$e any of my writings in boo# form in a hard or soft $over for general and publi$ $onsumption. 9y five volume 2600 page autobiography has found many a pla$e in whole or in part on the world!wide!web. .hat same 6eview 4ffi$e has reviewed this wor# given me permission to pla$e it on the internet but not between the $overs of a boo#. .here is mu$h more I $ould add about the pro$ess of 5ahaHi review but this short $omment on the 5ahaHi review pro$ess whi$h is still in pla$e is suffi$ient to in$lude in this dis$ussion of the pro$ess of dealing with $riti$ism. Part 1A,@ 0ealing With 2riticism- %n %nswering Theology Ariti$al s$holarly $omments on my wor# as well as $riti$ism raised in

publi$ or private dis$ussions of less s$holarly material should not ne$essarily be e,uated with hostility. ?uestions and 1udgments evaluations and $riti,ues are perfe$tly legitimate indeed ne$essary aspe$ts of a person's sear$h for an answer to an intelle$tual $onundrum. Paul .illi$h that great Protestant theologian of the 20th $entury on$e e&pressed the view that dealing with $riti$ism a pro$ess sometimes $alled apologeti$s was an ;answering theology.N6 I have always been attra$ted to the founder of the 5aha'i 8aith's e&hortations in dis$ussion to ;spea# with words as mild as mil# ; with ;the utmost lenien$y and forbearan$e.;( .his form of dialogue its obvious eti,uette of e&pression and the a$ute e&er$ise of 1udgment involved is diffi$ult for most people when their position is under atta$# from people who are more arti$ulate better read and better at arguing both their own position and the position of those with whom they are in dialogue in some $riti$al e&$hange at some thread at a site on the internet. I am also aware that in $ases of rude or hostile atta$# rebuttal with a harsher tone that punitive rebuttal may well be 1ustified although I prefer humour irony and even gentle sar$asm rather than hostile written atta$# in any form. %till it does not help an apologist to belong to those ;wat$hmen; whom the prophet Isaiah $alls ;dumb dogs that $annot bar#.;> In its essen$e $riti$ism is often 1ust another form of $onfrontation an a$t of revealing one's true $olours of hoisting the flag of demonstrating the essential $hara$teristi$s of one's faith of one's thought of one's emotional and intelle$tual stan$e in life. MGialogue should not mean self!denial N wrote Kans @ung arguably the greatest of $ontemporary Aatholi$ apologists.) .he standard of publi$ dis$ussion on $ontroversial topi$s should be sensitive to what is said and how< it should be sensitive to manner mode style tone and volume. .a$t is also essential. 3ot everything that we #now should always be dis$losed< not everything that $an be dis$losed is timely or suited to the ears of the hearer to paraphrase $losely one of the 8ounder of the 5ahaHi 8aithHs more ,uoted passages. .o put some of this ,uestion of ta$t and this topi$ of personal revelations another way we don't want all our dirty laundry out on our front lawn for all to see or our se$rets blasted over the radio and .:. Perhaps a moderate $onfessionalism is best here if $onfession is re,uired at all. In todayHs print and ele$troni$ media it seems unavoidable even if only modestly. 9u$h of internet dialogue though is far far below standards of even a reasonable modesty or litera$y as posters Mf N M$N and MsN words abounding and ma#ing their way through dis$ussions.

4ften the briefest of phraseology a su$$in$tness that approa$hes sheer nothingness and an inarti$ulateness that has more in $ommon with grunts and sighs as well as whimpers and whims is found at internet sites. %o often the language betrays a #nowledge of basi$s deriving from the visual media and little reading. .he eye as one writer put it re$ently in what I thought was a $lever turn of phrase is so often ,ui$#er than the mind. Well yes and no I hasten to add on the $omple& sub1e$t of the print and ele$troni$ media. Per$eption and understanding based on the use of the print and ele$troni$ media is yet another too $omple& a sub1e$t to deal with here in even the briefest of ways. +nyway that's all for now. It's ba$# to the spring winds of .asmania about - #ms from the 5ass %traight on the .amar 6iver. .he geography of pla$e is so mu$h simpler than that of the literary intelle$tual philosophi$al and religious geography that some readers on the internet who engage in $omple& and not!so!$omple& dis$ussions are $on$erned with. Cven physi$al geography though has its $omple&ities as those who ta#e a serious interest in the topi$ of $limate $hange and the worlds of biodiversity and related s$ien$es are fast finding out. Whom the gods would destroy they first ma#e simple and simpler and simpler. I loo# forward to a dialogue with someone anyone who is in$lined to respond to what IHm sure for some is this overly long post. Kere in far!off .asmania!!the last stop before +ntar$ti$a if one wants to get there by some other route than by air or off the end of %outh +meri$a!!your response will be gratefully re$eived.! 6on Pri$e =eorge .own .asmania +ustralia. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!844.34.C%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .he interwar years: 1)1) to 1)') 2 8or some of the ideas here I am indebted to William %. Kat$her M.he Aon$ept of %pirituality N (aha$i 1tudies, :ol. 11 1)>2. ' .his ,uotation li#e many that I and others use $an easily be found by the simple pro$ess of googling. * %ee Cli"abeth 8riedmanHs response to: .he White =oddessO from the 3ovember 1> 1))' issue of The 4ew ?or+ *e)iew of (oo+s and Kelen :endler M7aura /6iding0 Ia$#son N 8ebruary ' 1))*. - Isaiah 5erlin /10 M6omanes 7e$ture 1)(0 on .urgenev: 8athers and %ons.<N and /20 M.he =entle =enius: .urgenevHs 7etters sele$ted translated and edited by +.:. @nowles %$ribnerHs and %ons in The 4ew ?or+ *e)iew of (oo+s 2010. 6 Paul .illi$h 1ystematic Theology L. of Ahi$ago 1)6( :ol.1 p. 6. ( 5ahaHuHllah .ablets of 5aha'u'llah Kaifa 1)(> pp. 1(2!1('. > .he 5ible Isaiah -6:10. ) ?uoted in Ldo %$haeferHs ;5aha'i +pologeti$s ; (aha6i 1tudies *e)iew

:ol.10 200122. !!!I K+:C 9LAK 946C .4 +GG +3G +3G WI77 I3 P+6. ' 5C74W!!!! UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU married for ** years a tea$her for '- a writer D editor for 12 and a 5aha'i for -2/in 20110 7ast edited by 6onPri$e on 9on Ge$ 2* 2012 10:2) am edited * times in total.

To *onPrice Post sub=ect- 6e: .K+3@% +3G +A@34W7CG=C9C3.%/Part '0 Posted- .hu 4$t 2- 2012 2:2) pm Than+s and ac+nowledgements to the many laces of my em loyment in the years- 1>@8!2AA8 Part 1: .he statement whi$h follows in this se$tion of than#s and a$#nowledgements des$ribes: /i0 -0 years of 1ob!hunting and 1ob a$,uisition /ii0 my transition from employment and the 1ob!hunting pro$ess to retirement from 8. P. and most $asual!volunteer wor# in the years 1))) to 200) and /iii0 the reinvention of myself as a writer and author editor and resear$her poet and publisher online 1ournalist and blogger as the se$ond de$ade of the 21st $entury opened. Kunting for 1obs and being 1obbed too# pla$e from 1)-( to 200( and by the age of 6- I was en1oying two old!age pensions one from Aanada for my wor# their from 1)61 to 1)(1 and one from +ustralia. .he transition from the 1ob world to retirement and the pursuit of a leisure life devoted to writing too# pla$e for the most part in the years 1))) to 200-. Guring those si& years I also gave up P. wor# and most $asual!volunteer wor#!!!e&$ept for volunteer wor# asso$iated with the 5ahaHi $ommunity and many online organi"ations in the areas of: mental health human relations the humanities and so$ial s$ien$es among other dis$iplines. .his statement below will serve as my a$#nowledgement to those organi"ations institutions and employing authorities that in so many ways had an immense impa$t on my life over half a $entury. .hey ea$h and all deserve a

/oined- 9on Ian 2* 2011 10:-6 pm Posts- 12> 'ocation=eorge .own .asmania +ustralia 4ationalityAanadian

pla$e in my statement of than#s and a$#nowledgements. .he information and details in my resume a resume I no longer need or use in any dire$t sense in the 1ob!hunting world after fifty years of use but whi$h I o$$asionally post on the internet for a range of purposes should help anyone wanting to #now something about my personal and professional ba$#ground my writing and my life. .his resume $ontains information about many organi"ations and groups institutions and employing authorities to whi$h I also give than#s as I a$#nowledge the role they have all played in shaping the dire$tion of my life!narrative. .his resume is useful now in many $onte&ts but not to assess my suitability for some advertised or unadvertised employment position. .his resume $ould be useful for some readers in $yberspa$e to assess the relevan$e of some statements I ma#e on the internet statements on a wide variety of topi$s at a wide variety of internet sites. If I feel there is a need for readers to have some idea of my ba$#ground my $redentials and my e&perien$e< if I feel that it would be useful for them to have a personal a histori$al a memoiristi$ $onte&t for my remar#s at an internet site I post this resume. I do so here in this wider statement of than#s and a$#nowledgements. %ee +ppendi& 1 for my A:. Part 2: .his post this essay for it is a sort of essay or arti$le is a statement an overview of my 1ob appli$ation life. .his overview may be of value to those who have to run!the!gauntlet in the 1ob!hunting world and it is a gauntlet for millions of people. 7et there be no mista#e about that. 9y intention is to be of en$ouragement< to help those who read this statement be$ome more persistent more optimisti$ about their own position a position whi$h is often a blea# one in a blea# house!!!espe$ially if those readers are $urrently unemployed and running that gauntlet. I never apply for 1obs anymore although I have registered at several internet sites whose role is among other things to help people get 1obs. Perhaps this a$t of registration at su$h sites on the world!wide!web is an a$t in whi$h I engage out of some sense of nostalgia out of habit out of an inability to stop applying for 1obs after five de$ades of persistent and strenuous efforts in that dire$tion. .hese de$ades of efforts were aimed at obtaining 1obs better 1obs 1obs more suited to my talents 1obs that paid better 1obs that freed me from impossible situations whi$h I had be$ome

involved with some wor#!s$ene in whi$h I was ens$on$ed!!along the road of life. I stopped applying for full!time 1obs in %eptember 200( and part!time ones in Ge$ember 200'. I also disengaged myself from most volunteer or $asual wor# by 200- so that I $ould o$$upy myself as: an independent s$holar and resear$her a writer and author a poet and a publisher an online 1ournalist and blogger indeed what some might $all a man of leisure in the =ree# tradition and whi$h I des$ribe in more detail elsewhere. +t the age of 6> then and on two old!age pensions one from Aanada where I wor#ed from 1)-( to 1)(1 at 8. and P. 1obs and one from +ustralia I am in one of the formal $onditions one of the many definitions of old age. I am now in the middle years/6-!(-0 of late adulthood/60!>00 as one model that the human development theorists in the field of psy$hology use to define this period in the lifespan. 4ther models refer to this period as old!age. I have be$ome self!employed in the many roles I outlined I listed above. 3one of these roles pay any money although I did re$eive royalties for one of my boo#s at an internet site. .he royalties were for si& years of the sale of that boo# at that site. I re$eived a $he,ue for \1.*). Jears ago ba$# in the 1)(0s if I re$all $orre$tly I $ould have bought one of those $ho$olate frogs for at the time and again if I re$all $orre$tly 2- $ents. 5ut at \2.00 their $urrent pri$e this money these royalties only allow me to buy one frog if I add an e&tra -1 $ents from my money supply. Part ': I have gradually $ome to this $urrent some would say penurious role in the years after I left full!time employment in 1))) more than a do"en years ago. .he pensions I re$eive total \1200 a fortnight< my house is paid for and so it is that my wife and I are $omfortable if not affluent enough to engage in mu$h retail therapy. 3ot being o$$upied with earning a living and giving myself to 60 to >0 hours a wee# on average at a 1ob as well as to various $ommunity responsibilities as was the $ase in the three de$ades from 1)6) to 1)))< mar#ed a turning point in my life. I be$ame able to devote my time to a mu$h more e&tensive involvement in writing and reading boo#s and arti$les of my own $hoi$e and not material that was the $hoi$e of others and part of the re,uirement the responsibilities of my 1ob. 8or this reading material and the publishing of my writing I have the internet to than#: =oogle 9i$rosoft and other sear$h

engines and $yberspa$e organi"ations. .o publish oneHs writing has long been a sign of $ulture but with the internet IHm not so sure one $an still say this sin$e every man and his dog is putting stuff in $yberspa$e. 3ot all of it to say the least is a servi$e to literature. .he an$ient =ree#s believed leisure was mu$h more than free time. It was free time well used free time with a moral mission. In the Politi$s +ristotle/'>*!'220 ma#es this arresting assertion: M.he first prin$iple of all a$tion is leisureT. 7eisure is better than o$$upation and is its end< and therefore the ,uestion must be as#ed what ought we to do when at leisureB Alearly we ought not to be amusing ourselves for then amusement would be the end of life.N +ristotelians see human time divided into three ma1or spheres: /10 wor#ing for a living /20 re$overing from wor#ing for a living and /'0 leisure time. 7eisure is the highest use of time. It is the antithesis of ;wasting time; or ;#illing time; with diversions and amusements. 3or is it rest and rela&ation< the downtime we need to re$over from wor# should really be $onsidered an e&tension of wor#. +fter several years of retirement from the different #inds of wor# whi$h involved me from 1)-( to 200(!!from 8. P. $asual and volunteer wor#!!a period in whi$h I re$overed from the effe$ts of half a $entury of 1obs I have begun to enter sensibly and insensibly by subtle and not!so!subtle degrees +ristotleHs third ma1or division of time into whi$h life $an be divided. +fter nearly fifty years of the first two #inds of wor# I am finally free to pursue leisure in the re$reational in the old in the =ree# sense of the word a sense that is indispensable to a$hieving our human potential. In the last de$ade or so I have reinvented myself for that leisure!life. Writing is for most of its votaries a solitary hopefully stimulating but not always pleasurable leisure!time part!time or full!time pursuit. In my $ase in these middle years/6-!(-0 of late adulthood/60!>00 writing and its $ompanion a$tivities: resear$h and reading editing and poeti"ing publishing and s$holarship has be$ome full!time about *0 to 60 hours a wee#. Part *: .hese a$tivities are for me and for the most part enri$hing and en1oyable pursuits. I have repla$ed my former paid employment and e&tensive a$tivity with people in $ommunity with a form of wor# whi$h is also a form of leisure namely as I say: writing and reading independent

s$holarshipRthe a$tivities listed above. 3ot all is easy!sailing on the western!front or on any front though: health issues still abound< money is at worst an annoying ti$# and the inner battle of life the only real one whi$h we all fa$e still goes on. Inevitably the style of one's writing and what one reads is a refle$tion of the person their e&perien$e and often their philosophy. I have set out a summary of my writing my employment e&perien$e my resume in an atta$hment or an addition to this brief essay this introdu$tory statement this $ommentary on the 1ob appli$ation pro$ess whi$h o$$upied my life for five de$ades: 1)-(!200(. If as that famous although not always highly regarded psy$hologist Aarl Iung writes: we are what we do then some of what I was and am $an be found in that atta$hment that resume that statement and its several appendi$es. .hat do$ument may seem over!the!top as they say these days sin$e it now o$$upies some '0 pages and many more pages if its appendi$es are also in$luded. %ee +ppendi$es 1 to * below for my A:. Kalf a $entury of various forms of employment as well as $ommunity leisure and volunteer a$tivity in the professional and not!so!professional world all that time in many towns wor#ing for and in institutions and a variety of venues and lo$ations a$ross two $ontinents produ$ed a great pile of stuff literally millions of words. It also produ$ed what used to be $alled and still is by several different names: oneHs $urri$ulum vitae oneHs A: oneHs bio!data sheet oneHs resume oneHs life!narrative life!story storyline. .his do$ument is now at least as I see it more of the latter more of a lifeline a life!narrative a memoir an autobiography!of!sorts. I use it to engage in a form of so$ial a$tivism in $yberspa$e. It is a form of a$tivism whi$h is an e&tension of half a $entury of so$ial a$tivism 1)-( to 200(. Whi$h I des$ribe elsewhere in my writing my many autobiographi$al statements. I have made the list of this stuff available to readers of this a$$ount this essay this in$lusion in a list of my than#s and a$#nowledgements. I update these many pages to in$lude re$ent writing pro1e$ts I have $ompleted or am in the pro$ess of $ompleting during these first years of my retirement from full!time part!time and most volunteer a$tivity. 9y resume has always been the pie$e of writing the statement the do$ument the entry ti$#et whi$h has opened up the possibilities of another

adventure another bit of gadding about another sli$e of a ,uasi! pioneering!travelling of a peripateti$ e&isten$e a moving from town to town from one state or provin$e to another from one $ountry to another from one pie$e of =od's or gods' Carth to another pie$e of it. +nd so it was that in the pro$ess of 1ob!hunting I was able to $ome to wor# in another organi"ation gain entry to another portion of my life and en1oy or not en1oy a new world and a new lands$ape with a whole new set of people and e&perien$es some familiar and some not so. I was able to engage in planting of seeds of a new way of life a way of life I 1ust began to enter in the 1)-0s. .he pro$ess I des$ribe here I have often thought is somewhat li#e a modern form of a traditional rite!de!passage. .o some e&tent I $ame to ta#e on in the pro$ess of $hanging 1obs what often seemed li#e another personality another me in the long road to dis$over if indeed there was a 6eal 9e underneath all this $oming and going. I'm sure this pro$ess will $ontinue will also be the $ase in all its many forms in these years of my late adulthood/60!>00 and old age/>0QQ0 if I last that long and should for some reason movement to yet another pla$e or indeed from pla$e to pla$e be ne$essary to $ontinue for some reason I $annot as yet anti$ipate. Part -: .his $ontinued movement though seems highly unli#ely as I go through these years of late adulthood and head into the last stages of my life from sunset and early evening to nightHs first hours and then finally the last hours of night the final syllables of my re$orded time. .his pro$ess this rite de passage e&pressed in the form of yet another 1ob in another pla$e seems for the moment to have $ome to an end. .ime of $ourse will tell. %ee +ppendi& 1 for my A:. .he last eight years/60!6>0 are as I indi$ated above the first ones of late adulthood at least by one of the models of the lifespan. In this first do"en years of my retirement/1))) to 20120 I have been able to write to a mu$h greater e&tent than I had ever been able to do in my adoles$en$e/1)-(! 1)6*0 those years of my early/1)6-!1)>*0 and middle/1)>*!1)))0 adulthood when student life and 1ob family and the demands of various $ommunity pro1e$ts #ept my nose to the grindstone as they say $ollo,uially in many parts of the world. With the final unloading of mu$h of the volunteer wor# as well whi$h I too# on when I first retired in the years from 1))) to 200-< with the gradual $essation of virtually the entire apparatus and pro$ess of 1ob!

appli$ation by 200(< with my last $hild having left home in 200-< with a more settled home environment than IHve ever had!!by 200(!!!and with a new medi$ation for the bipolar disorder that affli$ted my life sin$e my teens also by 200(!!!the remaining years of my late adulthood be$#on bright with promise. +s I indi$ated briefly above though all is not $lear!sailing for rarely in life is everything $lear sailing at least in my own lifeRand I suspe$t this is the $ase in most if not all of our lives if we are honest about our e&perien$e down lifeHs road. 9y resume refle$ts my many shifts in role in my lifespanHs a$tivity!base and it lists many of the writing pro1e$ts IHve been able to $omplete in this first de$ade or more of independent s$holarship and full!time writing. .he pro$ess of fre,uent moves living in another town and learning new 1obs whi$h was my pattern for fifty years 1)*) to 1))) is not everyone's style modus operandi or modus vivendi!!to use two still $ommonly used 7atin phrases!!!at least by some. 9any millions of people live and die in the same town $ity or state and their life's adventure ta#es pla$e within that physi$al region the $onfines of a relatively small pla$e a domain a bailiwi$# as politi$ians often $all their ele$torate. 9any people indeed millions have very few 1obs in their lifetime. 9illions of others have no 1ob at all. Physi$al movement is not essential to psy$hologi$al and spiritual growth nor is a long list of 1obs although a great degree of inner $hange e&tensive inner shifting is inevitable from a personHs $hildhood and teens through to their late adulthood and old age!!!even if they sat all their lives on the head of a pin and never moved from the parental nest. .hat referen$e to the head of a pin was one of the theologi$o!philosophi$al metaphors asso$iated with angels and often used in medieval times. .his metaphor has interesting literary appli$ations to the 1ob!hunting pro$ess and movement from pla$e to pla$e but I will leave that play on words for another time. Part 6: .his pro$ess of e&tensive $hange in peopleHs lives is even more true in the re$ent de$ades of our modern age at this $lima$teri$ of history in whi$h $hange is about the only thing one $an ta#e as a $onstant!!or so we are often led to believe be$ause it is so often said in the ele$troni$ media. 8or many millions of people during the half $entury 1)-( to 200( my years of being 1obbed and applying for 1obs the world was their oyster not so mu$h in the manner of a tourist although there was plenty of that but rather in

terms of wor#ing lives whi$h $ame to be seen in$reasingly in a global $onte&t. .his was true for me during those years when I was loo#ing for amusement edu$ation and e&perien$e some stimulating vo$ation and avo$ation some employment se$urity and $omfort. .hese were my adventurous years in a new form of travelling!pioneering globe!trotting pathfinding of sorts as part of historyHs long story my applying!for!1ob days some five de$ades from the 1)-0s to the first de$ade of the new millennium. 9y resume altered many times of $ourse during those fifty years. It is now for the most part and as I indi$ated above hardly ever used in these years of my retirement and espe$ially sin$e 200( e&$ept as an information and bio!data vehi$le for interested readers )).)Y of whom are on the internet at its plethora of sites. .his do$ument as I say above a do$ument that used to be $alled a $urri$ulum vitae or a A: until the 1)(0s at least in the region where I lived and dwelled and had my being is a useful ba$#drop for those e&amining my writing espe$ially my poetry and as an in$lusion here with my Mthan#s and a$#nowledgements.N %ome poets and writers artists and $reative people in many fields though regard their A: resume bio!data lifeline life!story life!narrative personal ba$#ground as irrelevant simply not ne$essary for people to #now in order for them to appre$iate their artisti$ wor#. .hese people ta#e the philosophi$al indeed somewhat religious position that they are not what they do or to put it a little differently and a little more su$$in$tly ;they are not their 1obs.; Part (: I fre,uently use this resume at various internet lo$ations on the World Wide Web again as I indi$ated above when I want to provide some introdu$tory ba$#ground on myself. I $ould list many new uses after de$ades of a use whi$h had a multifa$torial motivational base: to help me get a 1ob to get a new 1ob to help me ma#e more money to enri$h my e&perien$e and to add something refreshing to my life as it was be$oming in$reasingly stale for so many reasons in the day!to!day grind to help me get away from supervisors and from situations I $ould not handle or were a $ause of great stress to help me flee from settings where my health was preventing me from $ontinuing su$$essfully in my 1ob to help me engage in new forms of adventure pioneering amusement indeed to help me survive lifeHs tests in the myriad forms that affli$t the embattled spirit et $etera et $etera inter alia inter alia inter alter inter alter.

.he use of the resume always saved me from having to reinvent the wheel so to spea#. 4ne $ould photo$opy it and mail it out with the $overing letter to anyone and everyone. .he photo$opier be$ame a $ommon feature of the $ommer$ial business and government world in the 1)60s 1ust as I began to send out the first of the literally thousands of 1ob appli$ations that I would over the ne&t forty years: 1)6(!200(. 4ne didnHt have to write the appli$ation out ea$h time< one did not have to Msay it again %amN in resume after resume to the point of utter tedium. .he photo$opier itself evolved as did the gestetner one of the photo$opierHs prede$essors. %ee +ppendi& 1 for my A:. .here were many ways one $ould $opy one's basi$ data. 8or a time my mother used to type appli$ations for me ba$# in the late 1)-0s and early 1)60s. I slowly be$ame entren$hed in the 1ob mar#et as the 1)60s rolled! on. .his entren$hment was so very mu$h li#e tren$h!warfare ba$# in that =reat War of 1)1* to 1)1>!!when millions died were simply mowed down on the Curopean $ontinent in a pro$ess whose meaning we have yet to fully plumb. 5ut however little or mu$h we have $ome to understand the meaning and signifi$an$e of WW1 we!!my generation!!have $ome to e&perien$e a new warfare. Kenry 9iller/1>)1!1)>00 one of the first to get away with using the ;8; word in his trilogy: %e&us 3e&us and Ple&us e&pressed ba$# in 1)*1 part of the new warfare of my generation. It is he wrote ;a war far more terrible than the destru$tion; of the first two wars the first two phases with fires that ;will rage until the very foundations of this present world $rumble.; Part >: It is not my intention to do$ument any of these three phases of the destru$tive $alamity that visited human#ind in the $entury we have 1ust left for this do$umentation has been done in intimate detail elsewhere both visually orally and in print. I do not do$ument but I fre,uently refer to these three phases. I have different purposes here than mere histori$al do$umentation. 9y 1ob appli$ation pro$ess and other aspe$ts of my $ommunity and individual life was $learly at least as I loo# ba$# over half a $entury of the pro$ess part of that third war. .his perspe$tive also pla$es that half $entury in a wider so$iologi$al and histori$al psy$hologi$al and $ultural $onte&t. +pplying for 1obs as e&tensively as I did in the days before the email and the internet $ame on board in the early 1))0s be$ame an a$tivity that sometimes resembled a dry!wret$h. 8our to five thousand 1ob appli$ations

from 1)-( to 200( is a lot of appli$ationsO +t least sin$e the mid!1))0s a few $li$#s of oneHs personal ele$troni$!$omputer system and some aspe$t of lifeHs game $ould go on or $ould $ome to a ,ui$# end over a set of wires under the ground the ele$troni$ world of $yberspa$e. Guring that half!$entury of 1ob!hunting years I applied as I say for some four to five thousand 1obs an average of two a wee# for ea$h of all those yearsO .his is a guesstimation of $ourse as a$$urate a guesstimation as I $an $al$ulate for this fifty year period. .he great bul# )).)Y of those thousands of letters involved in this vast detailed ultimately rewarding but from time to time e&hausting and frustrating pro$ess I did not #eep. I did #eep a small handful of them perhaps half a do"en of all those letters. I #ept them in a file: 7etters: %e$tion :II %ub!%e$tion V a part of my autobiographi$al wor# whi$h is now entitled Pioneering 4ver 8ive Cpo$hs. .his autobiographi$al wor# Pioneering 4ver 8ive Cpo$hs goes for 2600 pages in five volumes and due to its length will not li#ely be read by many while I o$$upy spa$e on this mortal $oil. 9u$h of my autobiography portions of it are now found on the internet at a multitude of sites where in nano!mi$ro!se$onds anyone $an find portions of my writing in addition to my autobiography or my resume. I am #nown in a multitude of mi$ro$osms mi$roworlds miniworlds where neither name nor fame $an rea$h me and where all the problems that go with any degree of $elebrity status in our fame!hungry world will pass me by into $yberspa$e into an ele$troni$ ether. Part ): =iven the thousands of hours over so many years devoted to the 1ob! hunting pro$ess< given the importan$e of this #ey to my venture a$ross two $ontinents two marriages with at least two personalities being the bipolar person that I am< given that this new style of pioneering and voyaging!via! employment this parti$ular form of venture adventure in our time has been at the $ore of my life with so mu$h that has radiated around this $ore< given the amount of paper produ$ed the amount of energy e&pended and the amount of money earned and spent in this great e&er$ise of survival and revival< given the amount of writing done in the $onte&t of those various 1obs some of this employment!related $orresponden$e seemed to warrant a $orner in the written story of my life. It deserves a pla$e in this Mthan#s and a$#nowledgementsN statement. %ee +ppendi& 1 for my A:. It seemed appropriate at least it was my desire as I re$ently entered the years when I no longer applied for 1obs to write this short statement/not

short enough I $an hear them say0 fitting all those thousands of un#ept resumes and 1ob!appli$ations into a larger $onte&t as well as all those letters emails and internet posts written in $onne$tion with trying to ma#e $onne$tions with others into some larger framewor# of a$tion and meaning. 8or those who would li#e to read more on this theme I invite them to go to the internet site: 5ahaHi 7ibrary 4nline]%e$ondary %our$e 9aterial]Personal 7etters].he 7etters of 6on Pri$e: 1)61!2011. If su$h readers prefer they $an simply google: 6on Pri$e 7etters and more of this story will be$ome available with only a few $li$#s. TH%4;1 T. G..G'& %40 MI2*.1.FT %40 M%4? .TH&*1 I4 *&'%TI.4 T. TH& WWW Part 1: In 1))> two %tanford graduate students 7arry Page and %ergey 5rin founded =oogle.$om a sear$h engine that used a better te$hnology than had previously e&isted for inde&ing and retrieving information from the immense mis$ellany of the World Wide Web and for ran#ing the Web sites that $ontained this information a$$ording to their relevan$e to parti$ular ,ueries based on the number of lin#s from the rest of the Internet to a given item. .his Page6an# system transformed the Web from its original purpose as a s$ientistsH grapevine. 8rom the random babble the Web had been it soon be$ame a sear$hable resour$e providing fa$tual data of variable ,uality to millions of users. I was one as I retired from 8. wor# in 1))). It was the e&igen$ies of $ommer$e that transformed =oogle itself from an ingenious sear$h te$hnology without a business plan to a hugely profitable enterprise offering a variety of servi$es in$luding e!mail news video maps and its $urrent e&pensive and utterly heroi$ if not ,ui&oti$ effort to digiti"e the entire publi$ domainHs $ontents of the boo#s and other holdings of ma1or libraries. .his new program aims to provide users wherever in the world Internet $onne$tions e&ist a$$ess to millions of titles while enabling libraries themselves to serve millions of users without adding a foot of shelf spa$e or in$urring a penny of delivery e&pense. In the first year after I retired from 8. wor# Iuly 1))) to Iuly 2000 =oogle offi$ially be$ame the world's largest sear$h engine. With its introdu$tion of a billion!page inde& by Iune 2000 mu$h of the internet's $ontent be$ame available in a sear$hable format at one sear$h engine. In the ne&t several years 2000!200- as I was retiring from P. wor# as well as $asual and most volunteer a$tivity that had o$$upied me for de$ades =oogle entered into a series of partnerships and made a series of

innovations that brought their vast internet enterprise billions of users in the international mar#etpla$e. +gain I was one. Part 2: 3ot only did =oogle have billions of users but internet users li#e myself throughout the world gained a$$ess to billions of web do$uments in =oogleHs growing library. .he information revolution set off in the $losing de$ade of the 20th $entury by the invention of the World Wide Web transformed irreversibly mu$h of human a$tivity. Internet $ommuni$ation whi$h has the ability to transmit in se$onds the entire $ontents of libraries that too# $enturies of study to amass vastly enri$hed the intelle$tual life of anyone able to use it as well as providing sophisti$ated training in a broad range of professional fields. It was a finer and more useful library than any of those in the small towns where I would spend my retirement in the years ahead. It was also a library with a myriad lo$ations in whi$h I $ould intera$t with others and engage in learning and tea$hing in ways I had never dreamt of in the first five de$ades of my life as a student and tea$her: 1)*)!1))). .his ele$troni$ system of $ommuni$ation has built a sense of shared $ommunity among its users a $ommunity of individuals who are impatient of either geographi$ or $ultural distan$es. .his des$ription of the sense of shared $ommunity $reated by the internet is an evolving one with in$reasing effi$ien$y and effe$tiveness as the years go on. It is interesting to note that 8riendster began in 2001 7in#edIn and 9y%pa$e in 200' and 8a$eboo# in 200* four of the more popular $ommunities. .he internet is a $ornu$opia of a$$urate well!argued and #nowledgeable information. 5ut it is also a pla$e for spe$ious and spurious ina$$urate and beguiling arguments. People who #now little about an issue are often easily ta#en!in on the internet. 9any often believe a u!tube post they $an see to one that re,uires study and reading on their part. .he internet li#e many forms of te$hnology before it is both boon and beast asset and debit to the lives of its parti$ipants. Indeed a ,uite separate se$tion of this statement on my $yberspa$e e&perien$e $ould be devoted to the negative and positive impa$ts of the internet. Part ': In 1))* at the age of fifty and as I was beginning to eye my retirement from 8. wor# as a tea$her and le$turer 9i$rosoft laun$hed its publi$ internet web domain with a home page. Website traffi$ $limbed steadily and episodi$ally in the years 1))- to 1))). Gaily site traffi$ of '- 000 in

mid!1))6 grew to -.1 million visitors by 1))) when I had ta#en a sea! $hange and retired to .asmania at the age of --. .hroughout 1))( and 1))> the site grew up and went from being the web e,uivalent of a start!up $ompany to a world!$lass organi"ation. I retired from 8. wor# then at 1ust the right time in terms of the internet $apa$ity to provide me with: /a0 a$$ess to information by the tru$#load on virtually any topi$< and /b0 learning and tea$hing opportunities both dire$t and indire$t far in e&$ess of any I had had in my previous years as a student and tea$her. 9y first website in 1))( was part of the initial flourish of web sites and sear$h engines in the mid!1))0s. .he se$ond edition of my site was in 2001. + world a su$$ession of brand names have made ele$troni$ $ommuni$ation an everyday e&perien$e. Web browsers su$h as 3ets$ape Internet C&plorer and %afari as well as sear$h engines su$h as Jahoo and =oogle the latter founded in 1))> all $ame on board 1ust as I was retiring from -0 years in $lassrooms as a tea$her and student. .his new te$hnology had also developed suffi$iently to a stage that gave me the opportunity the $apa$ity to post write indeed MpublishN is ,uite an appropriate term on the internet at the same time. 8rom 1))) to 200- as I say I released myself from 8. P. $asual and most volunteer wor# and =oogle and 9i$rosoft offered more and more te$hnology for my writing a$tivity for my wor# in a Aause that I had devoted my life to sin$e my late teens and early twenties. Part *: .he Internet has be$ome emblemati$ in many respe$ts of globalisation. Its planetary system of fibre opti$ $ables and instantaneous transfer of information are $onsidered by many a$$ounts one of the essential #eys to understanding the transformation of the world into some degree of order and the ability to imagine the world as a single global spa$e. .he Internet has widely been viewed as an essential $atalyst of $ontemporary globalisation and it has been $entral to debates about what globalisation means and where it will lead. .here are now several hundred thousand readers as I say above engaged in parts of my internet tapestry my 1ig!saw pu""le my literary produ$t my $reation my immense pile of words a$ross the internet!!and hundreds of people with whom I $orrespond on o$$asion as a result. .his ama"ing te$hni$al fa$ility the world wide web has made this literary su$$ess possible. If my writing had been left in the hands of the traditional hard and soft $over publishers where it had been without su$$ess when I was

employed full time as a tea$her le$turer adult edu$ator and $asual2volunteer tea$her from 1)>1 to 2001 these results would never have been a$hieved. I have been as#ed how I have $ome to have so many readers at my website and on my internet tapestry of writing that I have $reated a$ross the world! wide!web. 9y literary produ$t is 1ust another form of published writing in addition to the traditional forms in the hands of publishers. .he literally hundreds of thousands of readers perhaps even millions sin$e it has be$ome impossible to #eep even an a$$urate a$$ount of all those who $ome a$ross what I write I have at lo$ations on my tapestry of prose and poetry a tapestry I have sewn in a loose!fitting warp and weft a$ross the internet are found at over >000 websites where I have registered: forums message boards dis$ussion sites blogs lo$ations for debate and the e&$hange of views. .he 1000s of internet sites are lo$ations where I pla$e essays arti$les boo#s eboo#s poems and other genres of writing. I have registered at this multitude of sites pla$ed the many forms of my literary output there and engaged in dis$ussions with literally thousands of people little by little and day by day over the last de$ade. I en1oy these results without ever having to deal with publishers as I did for two de$ades without any su$$ess. I than# my many readers and a$#nowledge with great appre$iation this new tool for $ommuni$ation. Part -: .here are a number of groups and individuals to whom I am indebted in $onne$tion with my wor# on the WWW. =raham 3i$holson for supporting me in the early stages of the *th edition of my website whi$h has now been in $yberspa$e for nearly two years. Gefine %tudio an internet design $ompany for designing my present website and of $ourse the millions of readers who $ome to what I write. The field of science .he field of s$ien$e has provided the abundant material and te$hnologi$al $ivili"ation that I have en1oyed in my lifetime. Guring 2001!2002 two years after I had ta#en an early retirement at the age of -- I opened a file for the many s$ien$e sub1e$ts. .he material was $olle$ted for the most part after my retirement from 8. and P. tea$hing in the years 1))) to 2002. I have never had files for these sub1e$ts although in the 1)>0s while writing arti$les on various 5aha'i buildings I did open a file on ar$hite$ture. In

200> I e&tended the s$ien$e file to in$lude many of its sub!dis$iplines in the physi$al applied and biologi$al s$ien$es. 9y life story life narrative life e&perien$e with these dis$iplines goes ba$# as far as I $an remember to grade seven 1)-62( when I was twelve and on the puberty $usp. MCgg larva pupa and adult N are the first words I remember from that s$ien$e $ourse more than half a $entury ago although my maternal grandfather and un$le had an interest in s$ien$e and they were part of my life until 1)->. I $ontinued ta#ing s$ien$e $ourses from grade seven to grade thirteen in the a$ademi$ year 1)62!1)6' when I studied $hemistry. I too# one s$ien$e $ourse in my se$ond year at university 1)6*!1)6-. .hat $ourse was in the philosophy of s$ien$e< at tea$hersH $ollege 1)66!1)6( I also too# one $ourse in the field of s$ien$e!!!tea$hing s$ien$e to primary s$hool $hildren. +s a primary s$hool tea$her I taught s$ien$e from 1)6> to 1)(1. %$ien$e of $ourse is part of everyoneHs life in this age but the formal $olle$tion of information and the study of the many relevant dis$iplines in the vast field of s$ien$e did not begin until the early years of the new millennium during my retirement from 8. P. and $asual!volunteer wor#. 9y se$ond wife Ahris too# an a$tive interest in s$ientifi$ sub1e$ts. %he was a ,ualified maths and s$ien$e se$ondary s$hool tea$her and over nearly four de$ades I have benefitted from her interest in the many s$ien$e sub1e$ts and our unnumbered $onversations. Ker $olle$tion of boo#s and arti$les is e&tensive while mine even now after only a do"en years of gathering arti$les is not large. .he so$ial and behavioural s$ien$es and the humanities have #ept me busy for de$ades. .hese are younger and ine&a$t s$ien$es and they are still the ma1or fo$us of my study. .he s$ien$es are now playing a larger part in my studies in these years of my retirement from the 1ob world and endless $ommunity a$tivities and responsibilities. It did seem timely to write this introdu$tion after 12 years of an ingathering of print resour$es on some 1sub!se$tions of the s$ien$es now in 2 volumes. I have always li#ed the 5ahaHi historian Gouglas 9artinHs view of s$ien$e as: Mthe systemati$ the dis$iplined use of the rational fa$ulty.N In this sense I li#e to thin# that my life has had a s$ientifi$ turn in this last half $entury outside its formal study my tea$hing of it as a sub1e$t and my general interest in its many dis$iplines. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! %PP&40IC D1-

*&15M& %40 *&'&:%4T %PP&40I2&1 Preamble: In addition to my standard resume found below my 5ahaHi resume is also found here/+ppendi& *0 as is: /a0 a list of sub1e$ts I taught while le$turing and tea$hing in post!se$ondary s$hools and $olleges in +ustralia /b0 a list of essays and arti$les I have published and /$0 some relevant bio!data. 4n$e used to apply for 1obs from the late -0s to the early years of this third millennium this evolving do$ument is now an ar$hive that I update o$$asionally for internet use in these middle years/6-!(-0 of my late adulthood a period developmental psy$hologists generally define as oneHs stage in the lifespan from the age of 60 to >0. .his do$ument is '0 pages in length in a font 1*. 6eaders with little time are advised to s#im and2or s$an the more than (000 words $ontained therein as suits their taste interests and needs. I have pla$ed it here in this than#s and a$#nowledgements statement sin$e I must than# the do"ens of people who are part and par$el of what is found below: writers and authors tea$hers and le$turers mentors and poets s$holars and more people than I $ould possibly or desirably list here. .his do$ument was sent to the 3ational 5ahaHi +r$hives of +ustralia/35++0 to assist in providing a $onte&t for the $olle$tion of my letters/1)60 to 20100 whi$h I sent to them in 2010. .his do$ument $ould also be useful in providing: /i0 a base of fa$ts for anyone writing my obituary after my passing in the years to $ome or /ii0 a $onte&t for a statement of my than#s and a$#nowledgements. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU %, My %scribed *oles in the 7ifespan: grandson and son nephew and $ousin father and step!father un$le and husband grandfather and step! grandfather boy and male among many others. (, My %chie)ed *oles in the 7ifespan: writer and author editor and resear$her poet and publisher essayist and online 1ournalist blogger and independent s$holar tea$her and le$turer student and tutor as well as many other roles. .hese other roles are found in se$tion * below roles I held at different times sin$e beginning my employment life in 1)-(. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 1.1 +$ademi$ ?ualifi$ations ^ 5a$helor of +rts/%o$iology0 9$9aster Lniversity Kamilton 4ntario Aanada 1)66

^5. Cd./Primary %$hool .raining0 Windsor .ea$hersH Aollege Windsor 4ntario Aanada 1)6( ^ 9+/?ualifying .hesis0 Lniversity of ?ueensland %t 7u$ia ?ueensland +ustralia 1)>> 1.2 Professional ?ualifi$ations ^ Post =raduate Giploma in Cdu$ation Windsor Lniversity Windsor 4ntario Aanada 1)6( ^ Aertifi$ate of Integrated %tudies Cdu$ation Gepartment of 4ntario .oronto 4ntario Aanada 1)(0 1.' 8urther %tudies/?ualifi$ations Partly Aompleted0 ^ +dvan$ed Giploma in Cdu$ation Lniversity of +delaide +delaide %outh +ustralia 1)(' !$omparative edu$ation unit ^ 9aster of Cdu$ational +dministration Lniversity of 3ew Cngland +rmadale 3%W 1)(- to 1)(> !$omparative edu$ation organi"ation theory and pra$ti$e edu$ational administration open edu$ation and history of edu$ation units ^ Giploma in Personnel 9anagement and Industrial 6elations .asmanian Aollege of +dvan$ed Cdu$ation 7aun$eston .asmania 1)>0 !organi"ational behaviour!' units ^ =raduate Giploma in 9ulti$ultural Cdu$ation +rmadale Aollege of +dvan$ed Cdu$ation +rmadale 3%W 1)>' !language and so$iety unit< presented paper at residential s$hool. ^ =raduate Giploma in 6eligious Cdu$ation %outh +ustralian Aollege of +dvan$ed Cdu$ation +delaide %outh +ustralia 1)>* to 1)>6 !6eligious symbols and symbolism so$iology of edu$ation the 5ible

as literature moral edu$ation Islam and prin$iples of religious edu$ation units. ^9+/?ualifying thesis0 !.he 6outini"ation of Aharisma in the 5ahaHi 8aith 1.* .rans$ripts and =rades ^ .rans$ripts are available on re,uest originals or $opies. ^ + summary of my a$ademi$ re$ord would read: 9atri$ulation/50 5+/A0 Gip. Cd./50 Post!=raduate %tudies/2 distin$tions - $redits 1 pass/50 and 10 pass/A0 grades. 1.- .ea$hing ?ualifi$ations and 6egistrations ^ .ea$hing Aertifi$ate/Primary0 Windsor .ea$hersH Aollege 1)6(. ^ 6egistered with the Primary %e$ondary and .e$hni$al .ea$hers 6egistration 5oards of :i$toria in 1)(-. ^ =ranted permanen$y with GC:C. /now Gept of .raining and Cmployment0 in Western +ustralia in Iune 1))2. ^ .ea$hing le$turing and tutoring in universities and $olleges of advan$ed edu$ation as I did from 1)(* to 1)(> did not re,uire any formal registration. 4ne got oneHs 1ob on the basis of ,ualifi$ations and of $ourse an interview. 1.6 Professional 9emberships and Cligibility ^ %e$ondary %$hool .ea$hers Lnion of Western +ustralia: 1)>( to 1))). 5ran$h se$retary for four of those years at Kedland Aollege and the .hornlie Aampus of the %outheast 9etropolitan Aollege of .afe now %wan Aollege of .afe. ^ +ustralian +sso$iation of Cdu$ational +dministration: 1)(- and 1)(6 ^ +ustralian Institute of Welfare Wor#ers eligible but did not be$ome a member. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!P+6. * 48 .KI% .K6C+G .4 A49C 3CV.!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU married for ** years a tea$her for '- a writer D editor for 12 and a 5aha'i for -2/in 20110 7ast edited by 6onPri$e on 9on Ge$ 2* 2012 10:') am edited 6 times in total.

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Post sub=ect- 6e: .K+3@% +3G +A@34W7CG=C9C3.%/Part *0 Posted- .hu 4$t 2- 2012 2:*2 pm 2, P5('I2%TI.41%!# Articles and )e iews: *ournals+,ebsites 1.^Cssays Interviews and +rti$les on the Internet at: 1.1 .he 5aha'i +$ademi$ 6esour$e 7ibrary also entitled 5ahZ'[ 7ibrary 4nline has several hundred items posted there 1))- to 2010< and at 1.2 +n estimated >000 other internet sites $ontaining many millions of my words at: posts essays arti$les eboo#s boo#s debates and general responses to the writings of others: 2001!2012. 2. ^ ;+ Kistory of the 5aha'i 8aith in the 3orthern .erritory: 1)*(!1))( ; 3orthern 7ights '2 Instalments 2000!200'. '. ^ Periodi$ +rti$les in ;3ewsletters ; 6egional .ea$hing Aommittees of the 3%+ of the 5aha'is of +ustralia In$. 1)(1!2001. *. ^ Periodi$ +rti$les27etters 5aha'i Aanada and .he +ustralian 5aha'i 5ulletin now .he +ustralian 5ahaHi: 1)(1!2006. -. ^ ;9emorials of the 8aithful ; 5aha'i %tudies 6eview %eptember 2001. 6. ^ ;6eview of .wo Ahapboo#s: .he Poetry of .ony 7ee ; +rts Gialogue Iune 2001. (. ^ ;+sia and the 7ost Poems: .he Poetry of +nthony 7ee ; +rt 'n %oul a Website for Poets and Poetry Ianuary 2000. >. ^ ;.he Passionate +rtist ; +ustralian 5aha'i %tudies :ol.2 2000. ). ^ ;9emorials of the 8aithful ; +ustralian 5aha'i %tudies :ol.1 3o.2 1))) p.102 and uplifting words.org 200-!6. 10. ^ ;Poetry of 6on Pri$e: +n 4verview ; +5% 3ewsletter 3o.'> %eptember 1))(. 11. ^ ;.homas a @empis .aher"adeh and the Gay of Iudgement ; 8orum :ol.' 3o 1 1))* pp.1!'. 12. ^ ;8orward; +n Introdu$tion to 4$$asions of =ra$e: Poems and Portrayals 6oger White =eorge 6onald 4&ford 1))'. 1'. ^ ;.he Inner 7ife and the Cnvironment; a paper presented at 9urdo$h Lniversity at the 5ahaHi %tudies Aonferen$e in +pril 1))0 and published in .he Cnvironment: 4ur Aommon Keritage 9onograph 3o.- 1))* pp.11>! 1'1. 1*. ^ ;.he Kistory of a Gream: + .ribute to Persisten$e; 4ffi$e of .afe Publi$ation in Western +ustralia 1)>> pp.-!6. 1-. ^ ;6esponse; Gialogue :ol.2 3o.1 1)>6 pp.'!*. 16. ^ ;Komeward 5ound; Gialogue :ol.1 3o. 1 1)>- pp.'(!'>. 1(. ^ ;Kappiness; Kerald of the %outh :ol.11 1)>- pp.26!2(.

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1>. ^ ;Perspe$tives on 9ulti$ulturalism; 6esidential %$hool Papers: 9ay to Iuly 1)>' Aentre for 9ulti$ultural %tudies +rmidale A+C pp.2*!2>. 1). ^ ;Who Plays the 9usi$ in Jour GreamsB; Gream International 1)>' :ol.1 3o.' p.'1. 20. ^ ;Aonsultative Ge$ision 9a#ing; 3orthern 3ews Garwin Ge$ember 1)>'. 21. ;.he 5aha'i 8aith: + %eries of * +rti$les ; %tudent 9aga"ine 5allarat Aollege of +dvan$ed Cdu$ation 1)((!(>. 22. M.he 5ahaHi 8aith: * +rti$les N .asmanian A+C Publi$ation 7aun$eston 1)(*. 2'. 9any other published wor#s: the list is too long to in$lude here. %!%! Articles and )e iews: -ewspapers 1-0 arti$les of about >00 words ea$h have appeared in the following newspapers and maga"ines in 1)>'!1)>6. @atherine +dvertiser.....1-0 000 words @atherine .imes................2 000 words 5ar#ley 6egional..................'00 words 7aun$eston C&aminer...........'00 words .he .asmanian.................... '00 words .he 3orthern 3ews .............'00 words Aosmos.................................-00 words Pirius....................................-00 words 5allarat A+C.....................2 -00 words/- arti$les0 3ewspapers on Internet...20 000 words In 200- I began posting items at online newspapers and now have postings at: %!. 'nline -ewspapers and *ournals 1. .he 3ew Jor# .imes 2. 3ashuatelegraph '. International :iewpoint *. Persian Iournal -. .he +ustralian 6. Aareer Iournal (. .he Aanadian Poetry +sso$iation >. World Ahroni$le ). Aontemporary 7iterature 10. Curopean Kistory 11. 9edieval Kistory

12. Writers in .ou$h 1'. +r#ansas Poets %o$iety 1*. Gream Iournal 1-. 9any others too many to list here. %!/ 'nline Message 0oards, 0logs and &orums: +ppro&imately >000 online sites. 7ist available on re,uest at my email address: ronpri$e)_gmail.$om %!1 Poetry Poetry published in the following publi$ations: 1. +rtgender 2. .he %outhern =a"ette '. Kerald of the %outh *. @atherine +dvertiser -. four W 3o.6: %ele$ted Wor#s!Aharles %turt Lniversity 6. .he %outhern =a"ette (. +ustralian 5ahaHi 5ulletin >. .he 7i,uid 9irror ). 5aha'i Aanada 10. +5% 3ewsletter 11. +ustralian 5aha'i %tudies Iournal 12. World 4rder: +nthology 2.6 4nline Poetry %ites 1. +ppro&imately *00 internet sites have poetry that I have written in one or more of the several sub!se$tions that o$$upy ea$h of these sites. +n estimated forty poetry maga"ines on the Internet have published my poetry. 2. + $omprehensive list of these poetry sites where I have wor# published is a)ailable on reEuest, if reEuired, 2,8 Manuals 1. .wenty!five in!house training manuals in the management studies program for Keadland Aollege and the 4pen Aollege of .afe in @atherine in the 3orthern .erritory./(0 page average length of ea$h manual: 1)>2! 1)>60 2. %i&ty study guides for the Perth Aampus of the Aentral 9etropolitan Aollege of .afe and the .hornlie Aampus of the %outheast 9etropolitan Aollege of .afe in a wide range of =eneral %tudies and Kuman %ervi$e

sub1e$ts./*0 pages average length: 1)>>!1)))0 3ote: these $olleges now have different names. '. %i& manuals for $lasses at .he %$hool for %eniors in =eorge .own: 1)))!200-. *. %ee the list of sub1e$ts taught in +ppendi& 5 below. .his list in$ludes the sub1e$ts for whi$h these manuals were produ$ed. 3ote: .otal numbers of manuals produ$ed are appro&imate only. 2,9 (oo+s, &ssays and 'etters 2.>.1 5oo#s Aomplete: Published: 1. .he Cmergen$e of a 5aha'i Aons$iousness in World 7iterature: .he Poetry of 6oger White. .his is a $olle$tion of essays written from 1)>> to 2002: 1-0 000 words '00 pages/appro&0. ^ Published by Iu&ta Publi$ations and .he 5aha'i +$ademi$s 6esour$e 7ibrary. Aan be downloaded free of $harge at either of these sites. +lso available as an eboo# at 7ulu.$om and e5oo#9all. + soft $over $opy in several volumes is available at 7ulu.$om 2. Pioneering 4ver 8our Cpo$hs: +n +utobiographi$al %tudy and a %tudy in +utobiography 6th edition: 2600 pages in - volumes at: /10 7ulu.$om /20 has been reviewed by the 6eview 4ffi$e of the 3%+ of the 5ahaHis of the L%+ with permission to post on the internet< and /'0 e5oo#9all whi$h has this boo# in e5oo# form in an 1>00 page abridged version for \2.)>< /$0 many parts of this wor# are found at innumerable sites on the internet< and /d0 a hard $opy of an >00 page 'rd edition of this boo# has been at the 5ahaHi World Aentre 7ibrary sin$e 200*. 2,9,2 (oo+s Incom lete- 5n ublished1. .welve attempts at a novel in the years 1)>' to 200-. .he longest single attempt was '0 000 words. +ll of these attempts are #ept on file and are available on re,uest if desired. 2. %everal of my internet postings at the 5ahaHi 7ibrary 4nline $ould be made into boo#s. .hese postings are found at several sub!se$tions of this site under: Cssays and internet postings 2.1 Poems and Poetry 2.2 Kistories memoirs interviews 2.' 5iographies

2.* Personal 7etters 2.- +rti$les papers unpublished 2.6 5oo#s +rti$les and 4ther 9edia %!2!. 3ssays 4omplete: 5npublished: 1. +n autobiographi$al $olle$tion of over 200 essays: 1)() to 2011 2. %ee se$tion 2.>.2 above sub!se$tion 2.1 2,9,3 &ssays 2om lete- Published1. Cssays 1)((!2011: + $olle$tion of over '00 essays. .oo long to in$lude here. 2,9,@ 'etters 2om lete- 5n ublished1. 1)61!2011. + $olle$tion of -0 volumes/ar$h!lever files and 2!ring binders0 of letters emails and posts on the internet an estimated -000 items. %ee 5ahaHi 7ibrary 4nline listed above in se$tion 2.>.2/2.-0 for a lengthy introdu$tion to this $olle$tion. 2,7 (oo+lets 2.6.1 Aomplete: Lnpublished: 1. 6( boo#lets of poetry: 100!120 poems per boo#let written from 1)>0 to 2011 over 6(00 poems. 2.( Websites 1. %everal million words in several genres: essays narrative interviews boo# reviews poetry letters emails and a wide range of various types of postings and responses to the writing of others are lo$ated at over >000 websites on the Internet. 2. %ee the *th edition of my website at: http:22www.ronpri$eepo$h.$om .his is a site whi$h went from some *-0 000 words and the e,uivalent of si& boo#s at (- 000 words2boo# in my 'rd edition to: a *th edition whi$h went online in 9ar$h 2011 and $ontains2gives readers a$$ess to a total of -0 boo#s at >0 000 words2boo#. '. +n outline of the developmental pro$ess that led to this slowly a$,uired publishing outlet and a list of some >000 sites is available under separate $over by writing to me at my email address: ronpri$e)_gmail.$om

%!2 4ollections of My Poetry and 3ssays in 6ibraries: 2.>.1 Poetry 1. 5aha'i World Aentre 7ibrary 5aha'i World Aentre P4 5o& '1 001 Kaifa Israel: -000 poems. 2. Aanadian 3ational 5aha'i Aentre 7ibrary (200 7eslie %treet .hornhill 4ntario 7F. 67> Aanada '00 poems. '. +ustralian 3ational 5aha'i Aentre 7ibrary %ydney +ustralia '00 poems. *. 6egional 5aha'i Aoun$il of .asmania P4 5o& 1126 =P4 Kobart .asmania (001 5aha'i %tate 7ibrary of .asmania Kobart '00 poems. -. 5aha'i Aentre of 7earning 7ibrary A2!7%+ of the 5aha'is of 9elville P4 5o& 62> +pple$ross Western +ustralia 61-' 200 poems. 6. 7o$al %piritual +ssembly 7ibrary of the 5aha'is of 5urlington 4ntario Aanada '00 poems. (. International Pioneer Aommittee of the 3ational %piritual +ssembly of the 5aha'is of Aanada (200 7eslie %treet .hornhill 4ntario 7'. 67> Aanada 120 poems. >. 7o$al %piritual +ssembly of the 5aha'is of 5righton P4 5o& --' 5righton %outh +ustralia -0*> %tate 5aha'i Aentre 7ibrary 5righton %.+. 120 poems. ). 7o$al %piritual +ssembly of the 5aha'is of Aanberra 1> Ki$hey Aourt +A. 2611 5aha'i Aentre 7ibrary 120 poems. 10. 5aha'i Aoun$il of the 3orthern .erritory P4 5o& 20-- Kumpty Goo 3. 0>'6 100 poems 11. 5aha'i Aoun$il of :i$toria @no&field :i$toria '1>2 100 poems. 12. 7%+s of 5elmont 7aun$eston 5allarat Garwin: hold 'some of my poetry' in their ar$hives 100 poems. 1'.7%+ of the 5ahaHis of .oronto 4ntario 2>> 5loor %treet West .oronto 4ntario 9-% 1:> Aanada 100 poems. 1*. .he 5ahaHi Aommunity of I,aluit I,aluit 3W. Aanada 100 poems. 1-. .he %piritual +ssembly of the 5ahaHis of Kamilton P4 5o& -(00) Ia$#son %tation Kamilton 4ntario 7>P *W) '00 poems. 16. .he %piritual +ssembly of the 5ahaHis of 5allarat P4 5o& 1'6 5allarat :i$toria ''-0. 1>. .hreading 7ights........of +n Infinite =ra$e....%eptember 1>th 200( to 1+ugust 200>. =iven to my wife Ahristine Pri$e on her 60th birthday. 1). 5oo#lets of poetry to other $ommunities and institutions are not planned into the future as they have bene in the last two de$ades 1))0 to 2010.

2,9,2 &ssays1. .he +fnan 7ibrary $2!=eorge 6onald Publishers 2* =ardiner Alose +bingdon 4&on 4V1* 'J+ Cngland has a AG of some 200 000 words. 2. =lowins#iHs 7ibrary in Poland +t: http:22glowins#i.olesni$a.pl2inde&.phpB ... pageElista 2,> (oo+s in Traditional and 2ybers ace 'ibraries1. .he Cmergen$e of a 5aha'i Aons$iousness in World 7iterature: .he Poetry of 6oger White is held in the +fnan 7ibrary a 'deposit library' administered by the 3ational %piritual +ssembly of the 5aha'is of the Lnited @ingdom +pril 200'. 2. .he same boo# $an be found online in the '5aha'i +$ademi$s 6esour$e 7ibrary' and at: http:22bahai!library.org2boo#s2white< as well as at: Iu&ta Publi$ations. %ee http:221u&ta.$om2 '. I have been given approval to publish this boo# by the 3ational 7iterature Aommittee of the 3ational %piritual +ssembly of the 5aha'is of Aanada and Iu&ta Publi$ations has put it on their site at: http:221u&ta.$om2 *. Pioneering 4ver 8our Cpo$hs: +n +utobiographi$al %tudy and a %tudy in +utobiography $an be lo$ated at: the 5WA7 200* at 7ulu.$om in soft$over in - volumes/part0 e5oo#9all/part0 and many other websites have portions of this wor# at their sites. I have been given permission to publish these volumes on the internet. If I want to pla$e them in a hard or soft $over they will re,uire further review in the L%+ by the 6eview 4ffi$e. 2,1A &ssays in 'ibraries1. .he 5aha'i World Aentre 7ibrary: -0 essays!1))*. 2. :arious internet SlibrariesH on a list that is in$reasing in the first de$ade of this 'rd millennium. '. %ee se$tion 2.> above. Ca$h of these libraries has one to several of my essays in their $olle$tion and they are found in my poetry boo#lets. 2,11 *adio Programs and Inter)iews2.11.1 Interviews: I have been interviewed on eight o$$asions in eight $ities and towns in +ustralia between 1)(* to 1))- on the sub1e$ts of: /i0 edu$ation /ii0 the 5aha'i 8aith and /iii0 Iran. Ca$h interview lasted from 1to 2- minutes. 2.11.2 Programs: Presented 1-0 half!hour programs on Aity Par# 6adio in

7aun$eston for the 7aun$eston 5aha'i Aommunity: 2000!200-. 2.1.' %imulated Interviews: )0 000 words in 26 interviews were simulated from 1))- to 2011. .hese interviews dis$uss my poetry prose and other topi$s relevant to my writing. %ome of these $an be found at 5ahaHi 7ibrary 4nline in the sub!se$tion entitled interviews.9any interviews $an be found at various sites on the internet. #, 2.5*1&1 %40 '&:&'1 T%5GHT '.1 +pprenti$e and Jouth Programs: 1. Pre!+pprenti$e +pprenti$e Cdu$ational Programs for Lnemployed Jouth/CPLJ0 Programs for Lnemployed Jouth/PLJ0 Preparation for Cmployment Programs/PCP0 and Jouth .raining Programs/J.P0 generally for 1- to 2- year old students: 2. I was a tea$her in a wide range of these programs from 1)>2 to 1))) at the following edu$ational institutions: 2.1 4pen Aollege of .afe in @atherine 1)>2!1)>6 2.2 Kedland Aollege 1)>6!1)>( 2.' Perth Aampus25alga Aampus 1)>> 2.* .hornlie Aampus 1)>)!1))) '.2 4ther Post!%e$ondary Institutions: 8ull!Part!.ime!:olunteer!Aasual/8.2P.0 1. =eorge .own %$hool for %eniors In$ 1)))!200-/:olunteer0 2. Aharles %turt Lniversity 1))-/Iuly to 4$tober0/8.0 '. .asmanian A+C 1)(*/8.0 and 1)()/P.0/now university of .asmania0 *. 5allarat A+C 1)(6!1)(>/8.0/now university of 5allarat0 -. Gea#in Lniversity 1)((/e&ternal studies le$turer0/P.0 6. Whitehorse .e$hni$al Aollege 1)(-/8.0/now part of %wan Aollege of .afe0 (. Lniversity of .asmania 1)(*/e&ternal studies le$turer0/P.0 '.' Aourses .aught In the thirty!one years from 1)(* to 200- I taught full!time for 22 and part! time as a tutor for (. Guring the years 1)>0!1)>1 I did not tea$h. In those two years I: /a0 had an episode of bipolar disorder and was unable to wor# and /b0 wor#ed in a tin mine in .asmania. I taught in the post!se$ondary institutions listed above< I taught some ninety/appro&.0 different units of study in the humanities and so$ial s$ien$es. .he list is too long to sight here< I have in$luded the list in

+ppendi& A below. .he list in$ludes the following general $ategories: ^ $ommuni$ation studies ^ so$ial s$ien$es ^ welfare studies2human servi$es ^ edu$ation studies ^ matri$ulation studies ^ publi$ relations2media studies ^ $reative and business writing ^ spe$ial edu$ation programs for: /a0 indigenous people and /b0 seniors /%ee +ppendi& A below for list of sub1e$ts taught0 '.* Primary and %e$ondary %$hool .ea$hing C&perien$e: '.*.1 Primary: 1. %ir 9artin 8robisher %$hool 8robisher 5ay/now I,aluit0 3W. Aanada 1)6(2>. 2. Aherry :alley Primary %$hool Aherry :alley 4ntario 1)6)2(0. '. Pi$ton Primary %$hool Pi$ton 4ntario Aanada 1)(021. *.Whyalla Primary %$hool Whyalla %outh +ustralia 1)(122. '.*.2 %e$ondary: 1. ?ueen Cli"abeth Publi$ %$hool in Pi$ton 4ntario: 1)(0!(1 !I taught grades ( and > in this primary s$hool in 4ntario. In +ustralia this s$hool would have been at the 1unior se$ondary level. 2. Cyre Kigh %$hool Whyalla %outh +ustralia 1)(22'. '. Para Kills %e$ondary %$hool Para Kills %outh +ustralia 1)('2* *. 4a#wood Cdu$ation .rust 7aun$eston Aampus 2001. 3, I4051T*I%', 2.MM&*2I%' %40 H5M%4 1&*:I2& &MP'.?M&4T &CP&*I&42&- 1>@8!2AA1 /non!tea$hing 1obs2e&perien$e0 *.1 %ummer2%hort .erm2Part!.ime Iobs: /ea$h - months ma&imum0 ^ Kamilton %pe$tator 1)-(!1)60: sold newspapers in 5urlington 4ntario. ^ %elf!employed gardener 1)60!1)62 in 5urlington 4ntario. ^ @it$hen!+ssistant +DW 6oot 5eer Ao. +ldershot 4ntario 1)60.

^ Pa$#er %hell 4il Aompany Kamilton 4ntario Aanada 1)61. ^ Griver!+ssistant Gundas %lot!9a$hine Aompany Gundas 4ntario 1)62. ^ Gata Pro$essing2%toreman D Pa$#er 8irestone .ire and 6ubber Aorporation Kamilton 4ntario Aanada 1)6' ^ Aash!6egister Alearan$e .. Caton Aompany of Aanada 1)6* ^ 6epairman2+ssistant 5ell .elephone Ao of Aanada 7td. Kamilton 4ntario 1)6* ^ +bstra$tor Aanadian Pea$e 6esear$h Institute Gundas 4ntario Aanada 1)6^ Cle$tri$ian's +ssistant %tel$o of Aanada Kamilton 4ntario Aanada 1)6^ Griver2%alesman =ood Kumour Aompany Kamilton 4ntario Aanada 1)66 ^ Aler# 9otor :ehi$le 7i$ense 5ran$h Gept of .ransport 5rantford 4ntario 1)6( ^ %ystems +nalyst 5ad 5oy Aompany .oronto 4ntario Aanada 1)6> ^ %e$urity Wor# International %e$urity .oronto 4ntario Aanada 1)6> ^ Jouth Wor#er 6esour$e Aentre +sso$iation In$. 7aun$eston .asmania 1)() ^ Iournalist +5A 6adio 7aun$eston .asmania 1)() ^ Cditor C&ternal %tudies Lnit .asmanian A.+.C. 7aun$eston .asmania 1)() /!% &ull Time *obs: /ea$h 2 to * years0 ^ 9aintenan$e %$heduler 6enison =oldfields P27 Peehan .asmania 1)>1!1)>2 ^ +dult Cdu$ator .afe @atherine 3orthern .erritory 1)>2!1)>6/some tea$hing involved0 ^ Publi$ 6elations 4ffi$er Kedland Aollege %outh Kedland W+ 1)>6! 1)>(/some tea$hing involved0 3,# 2asual!:olunteer Wor+/1))6!20100 .o in$lude the list of all my volunteer a$tivities from the start of my middle $hildhood years in 1)*) through my adoles$en$e to the final year of full! time wor#/1)))0 and into my present retirement/2012 to my death0 would

not be relevant here and it would be too e&tensive to list. I have therefore only in$luded volunteer wor# for the last 16 years of my life age -2 to 6> 1))6 to 2012 late middle age and the early years/60 to 6>0 of late adulthood the period whi$h some developmental psy$hologists $all the years from 60 to >0. Guring these years I was preparing to retire/1))6!1)))0 $ompleting my last years of 8. P. and $asual!volunteer wor#/1))6!200-0 and en1oying the first years of my retirement/200-! 20120. *.'.1 %everal 5ahaHi $ommunity a$tivities in 5elmont W+ and metropolitan Perth from 1))6 to 1))): $hairperson se$retary organi"ed publi$ meetings gave blood in donation programs organi"ed advertising and publi$ relations for the 5ahaHi $ommunity of 5elmont. *.'.2 6esear$h +ssistant 6e$reation 3etwor# In$. /disability servi$es0 %ubia$o W+ 1))(. *.'.' 6ed Aross :olunteer 8und 6aiser2Aampaign Ao!ordinator: 1))6!( *.'.* Presenter of Programs Aity Par# 6adio 7aun$eston 2000!200'. *.'.- .utor2President =eorge .own %$hool for %eniors In$. =eorge .own .asmania 1)))!200-. *.'.6 Par#s and Wild!7ife %ervi$e 3orthern 6egion .asmania :olunteer 200(. *.'.( %everal 5ahaHi $ommunity a$tivities in =eorge .own .asmania and the wider .asmanian $ommunity: $hairman se$retary publi$ity offi$er organi"ed publi$ meetings blood donation advertising and publi$ relations. *.'.> sold raffle ti$#ets for $harity organi"ations sang in a small $hoir and played the guitar to senior $iti"ens. @, 1 P&*1.4%' I4T&*&1T1 ^ Writing: see se$tion 2 above for details: 1)62!2012 ^ 6eading and musi$ : 1)*'!2012/statement available if desired0 ^ .he so$ial s$ien$es and humanities: have more than '00 files2noteboo#s2resour$e manuals $ir$a 20 million words $olle$ted over more than -0 years 1)-)!2012. @,2 2'5(1, %11.2I%TI.41 %40 F.*M%' G*.5P1^ gone solo on the guitar: 200>!2012. ^ 9ember of a singing group in =eorge .own 2001!200-. ^ Publi$ %pea#ing +ssessor 6ostrum @atherine 3. : 1)>*26

^ 9ember of the 7ions Alub Peehan .asmania : 1)>122 ^ 9ember of fitness2swimming $entres in: 9elbourne/1)(-!60 5allarat/1)((!1)(>0 Perth/1)>)!))0 D 7aun$eston/1)))!200'0 ^ 9ember of baseball and ho$#ey teams in 5urlington: 1)-'!1)62 ^ 9ember of the 5ahaHi 8aith : 1)-)!2012/to whatever is the year of my death0 /see 5ahaHi 6esume below for details0 ^ I have been a member of many groups during the fifty!two year period 1)-) to 2012 the age of 1- to 6>. I was asso$iated with or wor#ed as a volunteer in: /a0 .he =eorge .own %$hool for %eniors /b0 Aity Par# 6adio in 7aun$eston /$0 several other $lubs and asso$iations li#e: /I0 Aubs /II0 formal dis$ussion groups in edu$ational institutions as a student and /III0 unnumbered groups as a tea$her< and /d0 an aged!$are fa$ility in the town I now live in =eorge .own .asmania where I have entertained as a solo guitarist from 200> to 2012. @,# %W%*01, P*I<&1 %40 F.*M%' *&2.G4ITI.41-.'.1 9ost valuable player in the midget baseball league in 1)60 in 5urlington 4ntario. -.'.2 9ost home!runs in the pee!wee league and midget league in 1)-- and 1)-6 in the same town. -.'.' Publi$ %pea#ing in grade >. 6epresented my s$hool in the Kalton Aounty publi$ spea#ing $ontest. -.'.* 3omination for the best tea$her at the .hornlie Aollege of .afe in 1))) in Perth Western +ustralia. 7, *&F&*&42&1, *&F&*&&1 %40 P.*TF.'I. .F M? W.*;6.1 I am no longer re,uired to supply trans$ripts referen$es and testimonials in relation to positions sin$e I no longer apply for 1obs. I #eep a file of su$h do$uments though whi$h I used from the 1)60s to the first de$ade of the 2000s in an ar$hive for various pra$ti$al and nostalgia purposes. In that file are many of the referen$es and do$uments in $onne$tion with my wor#ing life and my $ommunity parti$ipation as a $iti"en a volunteer and an individual in relation to the many interest groups in the $ommunity with whi$h I have been asso$iated. I have not re,uired any of these do$uments in the last fifteen years 1))( to 2012. 6.2 %amples of my writing are also available if re,uested. I have a portfolio of my writing in many forms genres and layouts as suited to the

needs of the groups and individuals ma#ing the re,uestsRfor the most part now on the internet. :irtually all of these re,uests as I say now $ome from a wide variety of lo$ations on the world!wide!web. 4$$asionally I got re,uests from friends and 5ahaHi institutions but they $eased by the 21st $entury. 6.' In Iuly 1))) I $eased full!time employment as a le$turer!tea$her. In 9ay 2001 I went onto an +ustralian Gisability Pension and I no longer applied for full!time 1obs. %even years ago in late 200' I applied for my last part!time 1ob. In 9ay 200- my wor# in nearly all volunteer organi"ations also $eased with the e&$eption of wor# done within the 5ahaHi $ommunity. 3ow at the age of 6>/in Iuly 20120 I devote myself full! time to writing and editing poetry and publishing online 1ournalism blogging and independent s$holarship although my wife ensures that I #eep my end up on the domesti$ front and in some so$ial a$tivities. 8, G&4&*%' ^ a brief bio!data sheet $an be found below in +ppendi& + below. ^ a $overing or introdu$tory letter has not been in$luded to introdu$e this do$ument. ^ a list of published essays $an be found in +ppendi& 5 ^ a list of sub1e$ts I have taught from 1)(* to 200- $an be found in +ppendi& A below. 7ast Lpdated: 20 4$tober 2012 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU (I.!0%T% 1H&&T P4%I.I43% +PP7ICG 846: I applied for some four thousand 1obs during the -0 year period: 1)-(!200(. Guring two of those years I was ill and2or hospitali"ed and $ould not wor#: *000 1ob appli$ations over more than *0 years is an average of two every wee# for *0 years!!from the summer holidays in grade 10 to my 6'rd year. KC+7.K 9ani$!depression2bi!polar disorder: treated !!separate statement available if desired at 5ahaHi 7ibrary 4nline +=C 6>.2/in 4$tober 20120 6C8C6CC% Kave not re,uired any referees in the last ( years: 200- to 2012. /8.2P.2:olunteer Wor#0 %ee lists above in se$tions ' * and - of resume. :+7LC 5+%C 9ember of the 5ahaHi 8aith for more than -0 years 1)-)!

2012/the present0. A49PL.C6 C&tensive use of $omputer to: /a0 write /b0 sear$h and #eep do$uments /$0 #eep a large personal ar$hive of writing. G6I:C6H% 7IAC3AC Jes/1)62 to 20120 PK4.4 4ver '00 digital photos available on ele$troni$ transfer from my $omputer dire$tory if desired. P46.847I4 I have a large portfolio of my writings available under separate $over if desired. %PP&40IC (P5('I1H&0 %*TI2'&1F&11%?1Preamble: .he following four volumes of essays have been published in newspapers and on the internet whi$h sin$e the years of my retirement from full and part!time wor# in 1))) and 200' respe$tively has been a fertile sour$e for the publi$ation of my writing. .he following lists are of a general nature. I do not attempt to spe$ify pre$isely the lo$ation of the published essays and arti$les. .his list though will give readers here some general indi$ation of the ,uantity of my publi$ations in these genres. :olume 1: 1)()!1))' +. 7etter to :argha 1 5ulletin 1)>0 2 5ulletin 1)>0 ' 5ulletin 1)>0 * 5ulletin 1)>1 - .asmanian Papers 1)>1/'0 6 Aosmos ( Aosmos > 1)>2!%our$eB ) Aosmos 1)>' 10 @atherine +dvertiser 1)>* 11 5ulletin: 6eview 12 +rmidale A+C: Papers 1' Gialogue 1* Kerald of the %outh: Kappiness 1- 5ulletin: 3W 5ahaHis

16 5ulletin: 1)>6 1( Poem: 5ulletin 1> .assie 3ewsletter: 1)>0 1) Gream International!1)>1 20 6enison 3ewsletter!1)>2 21 @atherine K%!1)>2 22 5ar#ley 6egional!1)>2' Perth .e$hni$al Aollege 2* +rmidale A+C: Papers 2- 5ulletin 1)>26 5ulletin 2( 3W 5ahaHis 2> Gialogue 2) Gialogue '0 Gialogue '1 5ulletin '2 Perth .e$h '' 7itera$y +rti$le for I.A '* +rti$le on White for World Aentre!1)>) '- +5%!1))0 Paper '6 4verheads for same paper!1))0 '( .he .ea$hing Profession!+rti$le for I.A :olume2: 1)>'!1)>6 %ome 1-0 arti$les appeared in ' newspapers in @atherine in the 3orthern .erritory of +ustralia. I have not listed them here but they are available on re,uest from this author at: ronpri$e)_gmail.$om2 :olume ':1))'!200' 1. Poem in Kerald of the %outh 2. Poem in +ustralian 5ahaHi 5ulletin '. +rti$le in 8orum *.D-. +rti$le on Gi""y Gan$e .heatre 6. Poem in 5ulletin (. 5ulletin: 8ishing >. International 7ibrary of Poetry: 1 poem ). +5% Poetry Aolle$tion 10. 6ef in 5ulletin re: poetry $ontribution 11. 9emorials of the 8aithful 12. 5ahaHi Aanada: tea$hing 1'. +rts Gialogue: arti$le

1*. 89 6adio arti$le 1-. 5oo# 6eview: 5ea$on 16. Ahapboo#s 6eview: +rts Gialogue 1(. 6eport on %$holarship/1))>0 1>. 6.: Aonferen$e 2001 1). +sso$iate 3ewsletter: 9emorials 20. 5ea$on: .ea$hing Aonferen$e 21. 5ea$on: advertisement on website 22. 7odestar/7Hton 7%+0 ad for 6adio Program 2'. C&aminer +dvert 6e: radio program 2*. Poem in 5ea$on 2-. 5ahaHi Aanada: 10 Jear Arusade 26. Aertifi$ate of 6e$ognition: %$hool for %eniors 2(. Kappy Kour 3ewsletter: 2>. 3=.A: arti$le on tea$hing 2). 5ea$on: e&ternal affairs '0. Iohn GavidsonHs 5oo#: 6eview '1. 7ast Installment for 3orthern 7ights '2. 5ulletin: 9G+ ''. .he 6eligion 8orum: poem '*. www. 5ahai.fo! '-. Planet 5ahaHi: poems '6. +rti$le : 8ran$es =regory '(.erose_temple.edu '>..ahirih Ganesh '). Indiana Lniversity Press *0. Kappy Kour *1. .heo,uest *2. Cndgame 8rom 9y Website *'. Alassi$s 3etwor#: poem **. Kappy Kour *-. bafa: arts dialogue *6. Planet 5ahaHi: item *(. +lumbo Aolumn *>. +rti$le for: Aivili"ation +dv Aentre *). 3ational 7ibrary of Aanada -0. =eorge .own 4n %how +rt C&hibit -1. $voogt: noti$e -2. 5uilding 9omentum Aonferen$e: review for 5ea$on -'. Lplifting Words: arti$le :olume *: 200*!2010

.able 4f Aontents .hese published arti$les are mostly internet postings and the list of the following arti$les $an be found in my dire$tory at: 3ovel]Kumanities]Aont. Pub Writ :*. .his list is not $omprehensive but $ontains many of the main and signifi$ant posts at internet sites. +. Giary: Introdu$tion: :olume *.+.1/:ol.*0 and *.+.2 /:ol.-0 5. Published Items 7isted 5elow: 1. .P9!.he Philosophers 9aga"ine 2. Lplifting Words '. tal# religion 5ahZH[ /groups.google.$om0 *. giganews.$om -. +lumbo^/sent to .as Aoun$il 212*206E.A0 -.1 =oogle: bahaipioneering.bahaisite.$om2 6. tal# religion bahai (. 5ahaHis and 8riends >. Philosophy 8orums/.A0 ). Aanadian Poetry +sso$iation 10. Paper Iournal 11. Philip +dams!7etters 12. .heo ,uest 1'. Kumbul Kumanities Kub 1*. .he Ariti$al Poet/.A0 1-. Kamilton Writers 16. Planet 5ahaHi/.A0 1(. federalistnavy.$om 1>. 8a$ets of 6eligion/.A0 World 6eligion Gay 1). Lnited Aommunities of the %pirit/.A!!some0 20. Areativity Aafe 21. 20.si&.$o 22.1 +pologeti$s.org 22.2 5aptist Wat$h 2'. +bout site. Kolisti$ Kealing 2*. +inslie Kouse +sso$iation 3ewsletter 2-. Pyramids of Pea$e 26. .he 9etaphysi$al Aommunity %ite/.A0 2(. +wareness and 9editation %ite/.A0 2>. Pathways of 7ight 2). 6eligious Gebate '0. Greams: *0 Jear 4verview

'1. 9ysti$ism 5elongs to Cveryman/.A0 '2. Cmail to 7eslie at Jahoo %ite ''. 5ahaHi 6esume at: Keart of the 5ahaHi 8aith '*. 8eedba$# 8rom ' %ites '-. Psy$hotherapy and %pirituality: Jahoo =roup '6. +P% :oi$es '(. +pologeti$s.org: %tatement F'>. 7ife %olutions: Jahoo =roup '). 8oreign 8ilms: + =ood C&ample of Kow 3ot to Write *0. Gebates on Iesus: Jahoo =roup *1. .he Write 6eview/.A0 *2. Writers Waters II *'. 9y Iourney .hrough %o$iology/.A0 Alini$al %o$iology 8orum **. +bout: C&pert Intro *-. 9igration Keritage Aentre/3%W0 *6. 8eedba$# 8rom 5i!Polar %urvivor *(. .he 9ystery .radition *>. +bout 5i!Polar 8orum!6esponse *>.1 5ulletin: 9emorials of the 8aithful *>.2 5ulletin: Aomputer Internet .ea$hing *>.' 5ulletin: Pioneer to .asmania /$anHt find arti$le0 *). 5i!Polar 7etter to: various people -0. 8aith and 8ellowship!C&ile -1. 9idlands Aontest -2. Lnheard Words -'. 9use Whispers: :ol.1 -*. .asmanian %ummer %$hool Program: Lsing the Internet --. 9iddle Cast .ruth. Website/.A0 -6. Intro to Iob Kunting 8ile -(. @oo#amonga %,uare ->. Internet Infidels -). %oft news 60. weblog_20si&.$o.u# 61. +rti$le on Iohn GavidsonHs 5oo# 62. Aon1un$tions: 6obert Areeley 6'!-. Prayers 8or Kealing: several sites 66. .rip +dvisor/.A0 6(. Aanadian Poetry: $ontent outline 6>. I9Gb 8ilm 6eview: 8ran$es 6). %par# 3otes: Poem and 6eply/.A0 (0. Pro%ports Gaily 8orum/.A0

(1. Ahristian!5ahaHi Gialogue!1st 10 pages/.A0 (2. 6uth =ledhill 5log/.A0 ('. 5oo#let26eport to .asmanian Aoun$il!212*206 (*. @ansas Aity %tar (-. 5ahaHi Aanada!'2(206 (6. +ustralia 5ahaHi!Internet ((. boo#hit$h.$om/Qroyalties0 (>. Gepression 8orum (). 7eonard Aohen at6onse&smith.$om >0. 9y 8aith %ite >1. +ust 5ahaHi!7%+ >2. 9ega %ear$h. +utobiography >'. Wi#ipedia. many >*. Iohn =ielgud 8orum >-. +nnual 7etter: 2006/1st draft0 >6. 8ilm %ites >(.Ia$#al:9ovie7ens >>. 7etter to +5A 6adio2.: 6eligion >). 5log. KCJG+JA49 )0. Iran:5ahaHis!-211206 )1. 5ulletin!11206 )2. 3oteboo#s!4utline )'. 5log for +meri$a )*. +nother 5log/Jahoo0 )-. Poem for %eti )6. Cli"abeth Iolley )(. 3o of 5oo#s/63I50 )>. Indy 9usi$ )).Ahi$agoland %ite 100. Poetry 9aga"ine 101. 8ree 4nline2e5oo#s 102. 4nline 5oo#s Page APP3-7(8 4: 4'5)S3S, 5-(TS, M'7563S, S966A0(, S50*34TS ') P)':)AMS TA5:;T (- P'ST-S34'-7A)9 3754AT('-A6 (-ST(T5T('-S (A5ST)A6(A .he list below outlines the Ssub1e$tsH taught between 1)(* and 200-: 2) years. I did not tea$h in the years: 1)>0!1)>1. .he sub1e$ts I taught in primary and se$ondary s$hools from 1)6( to 1)(' are not in$luded here.

+. Kedland Aollege: +$ting 7e$turer in 9anagement %tudies: 1)>6!1)>( and @atherine 4pen Aollege of .afe: 1)>2!1)>6 Interpersonal %#ills + Interpersonal %#ills 5 Performan$e +ppraisal 3egotiating %#ills + 3egotiating %#ills 5 Aonfli$t 6esolution + Aonfli$t 6esolution 5 Introdu$tion to 9anagement Alub 9anagement .ime 9anagement Aounselling Interview .e$hni,ues Publi$ %pea#ing Interview .e$hni,ues Aonsultation %#ills 7etter Writing and 6eport Writing + 7etter Writing and 6eport Writing 5 %upervision %#ills +boriginal +dministrator .raining 4ffi$er %#ills Areative Writing/+dult Cdu$ation0 %o$iology/+dult Cdu$ation0 5. .he .hornlie Aampus of the %outh Cast 9etropolitan Aollege of .e$hni$al and 8urther Cdu$ation and .he Perth Aampus of the Aentral 9etropolitan Aollege of .e$hni$al and 8urther Cdu$ation:/1)>>!1)))0 Aommuni$ation Aore/Aertifi$ate '0 Aommuni$ation 1/Giploma0 5usiness Aommuni$ation 1+/Giploma0 5usiness Aommuni$ation 15/Giploma0 +n$ient =ree# Kistory .CC +n$ient 6oman Kistory .CC 9odern Kistory .CC Politi$s .CC Cnglish 7iterature .CC Cnglish .CC .raditional Aulture and 9odern %o$iety/+nthropology0 8ramewor# of +ustralian %o$iety/C$onomi$s0 Kistory of Ideas

+ustralian =overnment and 7egal %ystems Philosophy 1 + Philosophy 15 =eneral Psy$hology Aommer$ial and Aivi$ Prin$iples Interpersonal %tudy and Wor# %#ills 001 Interpersonal %tudy and Wor# %#ills 002 %o$iety and Aulture/%o$iology0 7ife %#ills 15/guitar0 6e$reation 2/Aertifi$ate 20 %o$ial %$ien$e Introdu$tion Welfare Pra$ti$e 1+ Welfare Pra$ti$e 15 Welfare Pra$ti$e 2+ Welfare Pra$ti$e 25 A. .hornlie Aampus/as above0: 1))*!1))) In these three programs: Kuman %ervi$es Aertifi$ate ' Welfare %tudies Aertifi$ate * Kuman %ervi$es Giploma/-0 I taught the following sub1e$ts: Welfare Aommuni$ation /*0 Introdu$tion to Kuman %ervi$es/'0 Gealing With Aonfli$t/'0 8amily and Aommunity/'0 Wor# .eam Aommuni$ation/'0 %ervi$e Provision and Pra$ti$e/'0 %tudy %#ills/'0 6e$ognition of Prior 7earning/'0 Kuman Gevelopment 001/'0 Kuman Gevelopment 002/'0 8ield Pla$ement/'0 /*0 and /-0 8ield .utorial/'0 and /-0 9anaging People: .raining and Gevelopment/-0 9anaging =roup Problem %olving and Ge$ision 9a#ing/-0 %o$iology for Kuman %ervi$e Wor#ers/-0 G. Cngineering +pplied %$ien$e and %o$ial %$ien$e %tudents at the 5allarat Aollege of +dvan$ed Cdu$ation 1)(6!1)(>: %o$ial %$ien$e/+pplied %$ien$e: Cngineering0/5%$0 %o$ial %$ien$e/+pplied %$ien$e: =eology0/5%$0 %o$ial %$ien$e/%o$ial %$ien$e0/5+0

+ustralian 9edia/%o$ial %$ien$e0/5+0 %o$iologi$al .heory/.ea$her .rainees: %e$ondary0 C. Whitehorse .e$hni$al Aollege: 1)(-!1)(6 5ehavioural %tudies/7ibrary .e$hni$ian .rainees0/Aert.'0 8. .asmanian A+C: 1)(*: 7anguage in Lse/7inguisti$s0 Introdu$tory Psy$hology Kuman 6elations %o$iology of +rt Individuali"ed 7earning %o$iology =. .hornlie Aampus of the %C9A: =eneral %tudies: 1)>)!1))>: Writing Plain Cnglish Writing Wor#pla$e Go$uments Presenting Information Presenting 6eports Wor#pla$e Aommuni$ation ?uality .eam 9anagement Iob %ee#ing %#ills Aommuni$ation and Industrial 6elations 9anaging Cffe$tive Wor#ing 6elationships 9anaging and Geveloping .eams 8ield C&perien$e in Aommunity %ervi$es Wor# C&perien$e in Iob .rain Programs K. .he =eorge .own %$hool of %eniors In$: 1)))!200+utobiography Areative Writing Philosophy %o$ial %$ien$es 9edia %tudies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! APP3-7(8 / )3S5M3 '& 0A;A<( A4T(=(T9 '& )'- P)(43 Preamble: .he outline below is a brief s#et$h only. 3o attempt is made to list all the a$tivities in the fifty!nine years/1)-'!20120 of my asso$iation with and membership2servi$e in the 5ahaHi $ommunity. I have tended to generali"e rather than spe$ify the parti$ular tas#s and their respe$tive o$$asions. %ome

spe$ifi$ity is re,uired though and I thin# I have provided a good balan$e between spe$ifi$ity and generality. I would thin# in the vast ma1ority of $ases the information below is $orre$t and a$$urate although some guesstimation has been re,uired. .his statement has been used o$$asionally when applying for positions somewhere in what has be$ome a vast networ# of servi$e situations2institutions around the globe both within and outside the 5aha'i $ommunity. In the last seven years 200- to 2012 I have not applied for positions using this do$ument. 5ut I use it o$$asionally on the internet to provide readers with some general ba$#ground of my involvement with the ma1or volunteer organi"ation in my life. +. 10 Komefront Pioneering 7o$alities: 7isted as 8ollows: 5aha'i Jouth in 5urlington :1)-(!1)62 +.1 Jouth Pioneering/age 1>!2' in$lusive0 : 1)62!1)66 +.1.1 !Komefront Pioneering 1!Gundas : 1)62/+ugust0 to 1)6'/9ay0 2!%t. .homas : 1)6'/9ay!Iune0 '!Kamilton : 1)6'/Iune!Ge$ember0 *!Gundas : 1)6*!1)66/9ay0 /note: towns I moved to twi$e are $ounted in this list as only one lo$ality -!Kamilton : 1)66/Iune0!1)66/%eptember0 6!Windsor : 1)66/%eptember0!1)6(/9ay0 (!5rantford : 1)6(/9ay0!1)6(/+ugust0 +.1.2 74A+7 +%%C957J %C6:IAC: /Jouth: Komefront Pioneering0 >!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of Windsor : 1)662(: vi$e!$hairman )!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of .oronto : 1)6)/Ianuary to Iune0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!+L%.6+7I+ 5C74W .KI% 7I3C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +.1.' 74A+7 +%%C957J %C6:IAC: /Jouth: International Pioneering0 10!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of Whyalla : 1)(2: se$retary 11!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of =awler : 1)(': $hairman 5.+GL7. PI43CC6I3=:/+=C '0 +3G 4:C6: International Pioneering0 12!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of 5allarat : 1)(6!(> : $hairman2se$retary 1'!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of 7aun$eston: 1)() : publi$ity offi$er 1*!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of %tirling : 1)>> : se$retary 1-!7%+ of the 5ahaHis of 5elmont : 1)>)!1))): $hairman2se$retary

for ( of these years A. 6C=I%.C6CG and L36C=I%.C6CG =64LP %C6:IAC: A.1.1 Komefront Pioneering 16!8robisher 5ay2I,aluit0 3W. : 1)6(/+ugust0 to1)6>/Iune0 1(!Whitby :1)6>/Iune to Ge$ember0 1>!@ing Aity 4ntario : 1)6)/Iune!+ugust0 1)!Pi$ton 4ntario : 1)6)/+ugust0 to 1)(1/Iuly0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!+L%.6+7I+ 5C74W .KI% 7I3C!!!!!!!!!!!! A.1.2 International Pioneering 20!Whyalla %outh +ust : 1)(1/I arrived in Whyalla on or about 1- Iuly 1)(1. Whyalla was a 5aha'i =roup in 1)(1< 7%+ in 1)(20 21!7aun$eston .asmania : 1)(* 22!@ew :i$toria : 1)(2'!%mithton .asmania : 1)() 2*!Peehan .asmania : 1)>0!>2 2-!@atherine 3. : 1)>2!>6 26!%outh Kedland W+ : 1)>6!>( 2(!=eorge .own .as : 1)))!2012/plan to live in this town until my passing0 7! P506(S;37 A-7 5-P506(S;37 ,')>: %ee my resume above for details in these two $ategories of my writing. C. A499I..CC W46@: C.1 7%+ and =roup Aommittees: .he list of $ommittees during the 1) years of servi$e on 7%+s and another 2) years in 6egistered and Lnregistered =roups is partly too long to re$ount and partly beyond the s$ope of my memory after all these years. I do not re$all serving on any $ommittees in the five year period 1)-) to 1)6*. %in$e 9ay of 200- I have been the publi$ity offi$er and se$retary of the =eorge .own 5ahaHi =roup/6eg0. C.2 6egional and 3ational .ea$hing Aommittees:/6.As and 3.As0 1. 6.A of 3orthern .asmania : 1)(* 2. 6.A of the 3orthern .erritory : 1)>*!>6 '. 3ational Aommunity Gevelopment Aommittee: 1)(6!((

8. +ssistant to the +u&iliary 5oard : 1)>6 In the 3orthern .erritory in 1)>6 for a few months before moving interstate. =. Pioneer %ervi$e: /Aontinued0 1. Komefront : Aanada : 1)62!1)(1 2. International : +ustralia: 1)(1!2012 K. .ea$hing Wor#: It is very diffi$ult to ,uantify oneHs tea$hing wor# and the a$$omplishments of some fifty years of tea$hing both as a pioneer/1)62!20120 as a new 5ahaHi in my home town for three years/1)-)!1)620 before pioneering and the several years of early $onta$t through my mother and father with this new 8aith/1)-'!1)-)0. 5ut given the importan$e of this part of 5ahaHi life the following a$tivities $ould be listed as areas of $ontribution relevant to the tea$hing wor#. It should also be emphasi"ed as a preamble to this list of a$tivities that sin$e the early 1))0s there has been an important shift in the field of 5ahaHi publi$ information and the fo$us of 5ahaHi a$tivity. .he former preo$$upation with M$onversionN and the inevitable sense of Mus and themN that intruded for so many years< what had be$ome a somewhat paro$hial view of fo$using the 5ahaHi message in religious $ategories was slowly repla$ed with a more in$lusivisti$ approa$h or philosophy and my own tea$hing wor# has refle$ted this shift. 1 Wor#ing on 7%+s =roups and Aommittees 1.2 Writing: /see my resume above0 1.2.1 essays and poetry for maga"ines 1ournals newspapers and websites in and out of the 5ahaHi $ommunity 1.2.2 essays and poetry given to individuals groups and 7%+s in the 5ahaHi $ommunity note: !some of this is #ept at the 5ahaHi World Aentre 7ibrary/5WA70 !the rest I have on file in hard $opy or in my $omputer dire$tory at home 1.2.' =iving tal#s2presentations2interviews 1.2.* Wor#ing as a tea$her in edu$ational institutions 1.2.- 9oving to many towns and states where few or no 5ahaHis have lived 1.2.6 9oving to another $ountry at $ru$ial point in a Plan as a pioneer 1.2.( Cntering into various forms of a$tivity and interest groups in lo$al $ommunities 1.2.(.1 !festivals and other publi$ events so$ial programs and musi$al events

!media programs and lo$al organi"ations in a list too long to mention 1.2.> Promoting the 5ahaHi 8aith through various forms of advertising su$h as: ! putting up posters an estimated....10 000. !doing letterbo& drops an estimated ( 000 !pla$ing ads in newspapers radio stations .: stations and maga"ines an estimated 1000 and !being interviewed on radio eight radio appearan$es /one on $assette tape< one on mini!dis$ and sent to the 5WA70. 1.2.) =oing on unnumbered travel tea$hing trips from home $ommunities2lo$alities to e&tension goals to towns whi$h were not goals and overseas as a pioneer< and =iving poetry readings in both 5ahaHi and other interest group settings I. Aonsolidation Wor#: It is also diffi$ult to define oneHs $ontributions to the $onsolidation wor# over this same time period of -) years. +gain some attempt is made below given the importan$e of $onsolidation during these years of the ninth and the tenth stage of 5ahaHi history: 1)-'!2012. .here has been a ma1or shift in the nature of $onsolidation in 5ahaHi $ommunities as there has been in the tea$hing domain. I would li#e to list the following as part of my $ontribution to the $onsolidation wor# in its several forms: Wor# on the 5ahaHi institutions listed above ta#ing many formsRtoo e&tensive to list here< 1. Writing as listed above and re,uiring no more des$ription< 2. Writing boo#lets of poetry whi$h I thin# have and will have a $onsolidation potential in the years ahead sin$e they provide a ri$h base of $omment on the several de$ades of 5ahaHi e&perien$e in these epo$hs< and '. %everal of the a$tivities listed above under Stea$hingH whi$h also had a $onsolidation fun$tion. I. 4ther 8orms of Wor#2+$tivity in the 5ahaHi Aommunity: In a lifetime over more than five de$ades of servi$e in this emerging world religion one does a great deal. .his se$tion has been opened to in$lude items not $overed in the above and will be elaborated upon in the years ahead as my life $ontinues into late adulthood/60 to >00 and old age/>0QQ0. @. Aon$luding %tatement: @.1 .he above s#et$h or 5ahaHi resume as I $all it has been written to

provide an outline of my a$tivity in the 5ahaHi $ommunity sin$e 1)-' when my mother 1oined this new world 8aith and when I was still a $hild. 9y formal servi$e to this Aause began in 1)-) when I 1oined the 5aha'i 8aith at the age of 1-. .he 200 thousand 5ahaHis in 1)-' are now si& million and the 5ahaHi $ommunity has gone through several transformations in this time. @.2 .his s#et$h above of my a$tivity in this 8aith is $on$erned more espe$ially with the years sin$e 1)62 when my pioneering life began and sin$e 1)66 when my servi$e in 5aha'i +dministration started in Windsor 4ntario. .his statement needs to be read in $on1un$tion with: /a0 my professional resume above!!whi$h I used for many years when applying for general employment positions< /b0 my nearly (000 poems!!whi$h is part of a larger autobiographi$al wor# entitled Pioneering 4ver 8our Cpo$hs $ontaining: 1ournals poetry letters boo# reviews photographs tapes notes and narrative written and $olle$ted over -0 years: from 1)60 to 2012 Ran estimated five million words. @.' %ome -000 of my poems were sent as a gift to the 5WA7 in $elebration of the wondrous efflores$en$e that is the 5ahaHi Pro1e$t on 9ount Aarmel. +n >00 page autobiography by the same title was also sent to the 5WA7 in 200*. .his statement li#e my professional resume was on$e used when applying for positions in the embryoni$ global 5ahaHi +dministrative 4rder. 3ow it is used for the most part on the internet when relevant at various websites in $onne$tion with a host of sub1e$ts. I trust the above statement is useful to readers who $han$e upon it. @.* %everal thousand of my letters were pla$ed in the 3ational 5ahaHi +r$hives of +ustralia as a gift in 2010. 6on Pri$e .hatHs all fol#sO 7ast updated on: 2'2102H12 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU married for ** years a tea$her for '- a writer D editor for 12 and a 5aha'i for -2/in 20110 7ast edited by 6onPri$e on 8ri 4$t 26 2012 ':00 pm edited 2 times in total.

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Post sub=ect- 6e: .K+3@% +3G +A@34W7CG=C9C3.%/Part -0 Posted- .hu 4$t 2- 2012 2:-' pm ?LC%.I43% +3G +3%WC6%: + 8orm of .han#s and +$#nowledgements Preamble: Part 1: I began to put the following se,uen$e of ,uestions and answers together as I was about to retire from full!time employment as a tea$her after some '0 years in the profession 1)6( to 1))). In the first do"en years of the reinvention of myself as a writer and author editor and resear$her a poet and publisher an online 1ournalist and blogger an independent s$holar and reader the years from 1))) to 2012 I added more material to what you $ould $all this simulated interview. .his is the 26th simulated interview in 16 years 1))6 to 2012. .here is no attempt in this parti$ular series of ?s D +s to be se,uential to follow themes or simulate a normal interview. I have attempted a more logi$al!se,uential pattern in my other 2interviews over those 16 years. I have posted literally millions of words on the internet at 100s of sites. In the pro$ess I have a$,uired literally millions of readers more than I ever $ould have imagined during or after that student!wor#ing life of half a $entury: 1)*)!1))). 6eaders who $ome a$ross this interview of >000 words and 20 +!* font!1* pages will gain some idea of the person who writes the stuff they read at these sites on the world!wide!web. 6eaders wanting a$$ess to these sites and my wor# my posts at these sites $an simply google my name 6onPri$e followed by any one of do"ens of others words li#e: forums poetry literature philosophy history religion $inema inter alia. Part 2: .here are more than *000 other 6on Pri$es in $yberspa$e. 6eaders must ensure they are a$$essing my posts and my writing and not those of some other $hap with the same name as mine. %ome of these other 6on Pri$es are people of fame and renown< there are many others of notoriety. I have posted this interview for the interest of what has be$ome an e&tensive readership my $onstituen$y of readers and others who $ome a$ross my wor# for the first time.

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.he $ontents of this interview are an indire$t way of e&pressing my than#s to the many sour$es of my writing and $reativity espe$ially in these years of my retirement when I do not have my time filled with -0 to >0 hours a wee# engaged in a host of responsibilities that I on$e had in my younger adult life: 1ob and $ommunity family and friends student life and 1ust surviving life's slings and arrows as well as dealing with the wins. .he vi$tory over one's own self is the big one and only time will tell how su$$essful one has been!!!and even then I often wonder..... Part ': .he ,uestionnaire $on$ept whi$h I utili"e below was originated so I am informed by 8ren$h television personality 5ernard Pivot after what was $alled the Proust ?uestionnaire. .he Proust ?uestionnaire is about one's personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by 9ar$el Proust /1>(1!1)220 the famous 8ren$h novelist $riti$ and essayist. +t the end of the nineteenth $entury when Proust was still in his teens he answered a ,uestionnaire in an Cnglish! language $onfession album belonging to his friend +ntoinette daughter of future 8ren$h President 8`li& 8aure. .he album was entitled ;+n +lbum to 6e$ord .houghts 8eelings et$.; +t that time it was popular among Cnglish families to answer su$h a list of ,uestions that revealed the tastes and aspirations of the tal#er. Part *: Iames 7ipton /b.1)260 an +meri$an writer poet $omposer a$tor and dean emeritus of the +$tors %tudio Grama %$hool at Pa$e Lniversity in 3ew Jor# Aity utili"ed this ,uestionnaire in his series of interviews entitled Inside the %ctors 1tudio. .he series premiered in 1))* and has been broad$ast in 12- $ountries around the world rea$hing >) 000 000 homes a$$ording to that popular sour$e of information Wi+i edia. 7ipton as#ed the following ten ,uestions and I have pla$ed my answer in a bra$#et following ea$h ,uestion: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1. What is your favorite wordB/=od0 2. What is your least favorite wordB/8u$#0 '. What turns you onB/ 9y instin$tual and human needs for: food and drin# silen$e and sounds sensory and espe$ially se&ual stimulation o&ygen and physi$al $omfort shelter and wor# love and #indness as well

as the pleasures that $ome from the satisfa$tion of these instin$tual and human needs0 *. What turns you offB/3oise loud and aggressive people $onversation after one to two hours< most of the .: $urrently available to me a great deal of printed matter. When the needs referred to in F' above are not satisfied0 -. What sound or noise do you loveB/%ome $lassi$al 1a"" and popular musi$ some human voi$es and silen$e0 6. What sound or noise do you hateB/ +ny loud sounds some human voi$es0 (. What is your favorite $urse wordB/8u$#0 >. What profession other than your own would you li#e to attemptB /I was a student and s$holar tea$her and tutor le$turer and adult edu$ator from 1)*) to 1))). 3ow I am en1oying new roles: poet and publisher writer and author editor and resear$h online 1ournalist and blogger0 ). What profession would you not li#e to doB /7aw and medi$ine wor# in the biologi$al and physi$al s$ien$es as well as the trades. .his is due to /i0 my la$# of me$hani$al aptitude and as far ba$# as my early 20s at university /ii0 my inability to memori"e vast ,uantities of information. In the arts the humanities and so$ial s$ien$es I $ould get by with my $reative $apa$ities and the memori"ation of a relatively small $ore of information ideas and $on$epts0 10. If Keaven e&ists what would you li#e to hear =od say when you arrive at the Pearly =atesB /Well done and now tell me about your troubles in life while trying to serve 9e0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Part -: 5elow readers will find my own 2> ,uestions that I began to both as# and answer in 1))6. I last updated my answers after further refle$tion on 2* Ge$ember 2012. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

1. Go you have a favourite pla$e to visitB IHve lived in some two do"en $ities and towns and visited over 100. I have lived in some three do"en houses and would en1oy visiting both the houses and the towns again for their memory their nostalgia their mnemoni$ value. When writing about these pla$es as I do from time to time I would benefit from su$h visits but it is not li#ely that I will visit any of them now in the evening of my life for many reasons not the least of whi$h is: /i0 my la$# of funds /ii0 my disin$lination to travel any more and /iii0 the $urrent symptoms of my bipolar 1 disorder and the medi$ation $o$#tail I am on: sero,uel an anti!psy$hoti$ and effe&or an anti!depressant. .here are do"ens of other pla$es I would en1oy going to as a tourist or travel!tea$her $ir$umstan$es permitting $ir$umstan$es li#e: plenty of money good health lots of energy and if I $ould be of some use to the people in those pla$es. 9y health and as I say above my new medi$ations for bipolar disorder medi$ations IHve now had for over five years prevents me from travelling. 1.1 .ell us a little more about your health both before your writing began in earnest in the 1))0s and after. 6ather than go into detail here I will simply refer readers to my 100 000 word and 2-0 page/font!1*0 a$$ount of my e&perien$e of bipolar 1 disorder as well as the se$tion of my website on the same sub1e$t. 2. Who are your favourite writersB 2.1 the historians Cdward =ibbon and +rnold .oynbee 9anning Alar# and Peter =ay among a long list of historians a summary of whose writings I #eep in my noteboo#s< 2.2 the philosophers 4rtega y =asset and 3iet"s$he 5uber and %pino"a among another long list I #eep in those same noteboo#s< 2.' the Aentral 8igures of the 5ahaHi 8aith and .heir su$$essors %hoghi Cffendi and the Lniversal Kouse of Iusti$e< 2.* the poets 6ainer 9aria 6il#e and Cmily Gi$#inson William Wordsworth and 6oger White< 2.- the psy$hologists 6ollo 9ay and +lfred +dler and a host of others about whom I #eep in my noteboo#s as well as writers from many other dis$iplines. '. Who are your favorite artistsB

.here are several do"en art movements and hundreds if not thousands of artists that $an be a$$essed in libraries and with a $li$# or two of my mouse on the internet. I will name two famous artists whose wor# I li#e and two whom I have #nown personally: Ae"anne and :an =ogh Ahelinay and Grew =ates. I find it 1ust about impossible to answer a ,uestion li#e this given my e$le$ti$ tastes. I have tried in ,uestion F2 but found there were too many names and so I do not intend to ma#e su$h a long list here. +s my years of retirement from the world of 1obs $ommunity wor# and nose to the grindstone stuff so to spea# lengthen as they have sin$e 1))) I find there are more and more artists in the history of art whose wor# I am 1ust finding out about and learning to appre$iate. *. Who are your favorite $omposers musi$ians vo$alists and singer2songwritersB Kow $an one $hoose from the thousands in these $ategoriesB It is the same problem as in the previous two ,uestions. 9o"art 5eethoven Ahopin 7is"t 6a$hmaninov Kayden $ome to mind as $omposers but goodness there are simply too many to list. I pla$ed a list of my favourites at several sites in $yberspa$e. .he list had more than 100 people and 100s of their wor#s. 4ver the years IHve had at least a do"en different favorite $omposers in$luding: 5a$h 9o"art 5eethoven %$hubert Ahopin 5rahms Gebussy %travins#y Gvora# and 6a$hmaninoff. 9y favorite $omposer seems to be the one whose musi$al world IHve been immersed in most deeply at any given time. %ergei 6a$hmaninoff was a master of translating melan$holy and nostalgia into a musi$al language. Ke was $ured of a profound writerHs blo$# through hypnosis and he dedi$ated his beloved %e$ond Piano Aon$erto to his psy$hiatrist Gr 3i#olai Gahl. I dedi$ate my love for musi$ to my mother and father both of whom played the piano in our home as I was growing! up. -. Who are your heroesB .he Aentral 8igures of the 5ahaHi 8aith 5eethoven Cmily Gi$#inson a large number of men des$ribed in S+bduHl!5ahaHs 9emorials of the 8aithful/1)(0 1)2(0 and many more that I $ome a$ross in reading history and other so$ial s$ien$es the humanities as well as the physi$al and biologi$al s$ien$es. +gain the list is too long and its getting longer with the years as I head with what seems the speed of light to the age of (0 in 201*. 6. Who has been your greatest inspirationsB

6oger White and Iohn Kat$her in my middle age Iameson 5ond and Gouglas 9artin when I was a young man in my teens and twenties as well as a host of others too many to list in these years of my late adulthood 60 to (0. 3ow in my late adulthood the years after 60 in the lifespan a$$ording to some human development psy$hologists some new inspirations in$lude: the essayist Ioseph Cpstein the writers 5ahiyyih 3a#h1avani and Ldo %$haefer a number of poets and writers whose wor#s I had never had time to read or did not #now even e&isted!!!again the list is getting longer sin$e reading and resear$h writing and editing have be$ome mu$h more $entral to my life to my daily a$tivities than during my years of employment: 1)61 to 2001. (. If you $ould invite several people for dinner from any period in history who would you $hoose and whyB I would not invite anyone be$ause I donHt li#e to tal# while IHm eating. +fter dinner these days I li#e to wat$h .: for a few minutes and then go to bed. IHd $hose the following people to have a $hat with at some other time during the day but I would not have them all $ome at on$e. I would ta#e them as follows: (.1 Peri$les: IHd li#e to #now what went on in +thens in the =olden +ge as he saw it. IHve $ome to #now a great deal about +thens in the -th $entury 5A sin$e I taught an$ient history and I have many ,uestions whi$h of $ourse I $ould answer by reading. 5ut there are so many views of the man and the times. (.2 6oger White: IHd li#e to simply en1oy his gentle humor and observe that real #indness whi$h I $ould see in his letters and in his rare interviews. (.' 9y mother and father and my maternal grandparents: .he pleasure of seeing them again/e&$ept for my grandmother whom I never saw sin$e she died five years before I was born0 after all these years would I thin# be 1ust overwhelming. (.*.1 Gouglas and Cli"abeth 9artin (.*.2 Iameson and =ale 5ond and (.*.' 9i$hael and Cli"abeth 6o$hester. .hese people were all university a$ademi$s or the wives of a$ademi$s who had a seminal influen$e on my developing values in the formative period of my late teens and early twenties. (.- .here are many others in another list too long to in$lude here.

>. What are you readingB In 1))> my last year of full!time employment when I began to list these ,uestions and provide the answers I had fourteen boo#s on the go: eight biographies four literary $riti$isms one boo# of philosophy and one of psy$hology. 3ow in these early years on two old age pensions 200) to 2012 I am reading mostly material on the internet and that reading list is too e&tensive to list here. I never go to libraries any more and due to a la$# of money I never buy any boo#s although my wife does o$$asionally and I browse through what she buys. .he internet is overflowing with enough print to #eep me happily o$$upied until I die. 9y son bought me Gavid WomersleyHs '!volume edition/1))*0 of =ibbonHs famous wor# in 2010 and after ' years IHm up to page 1*0 underlining as I go the passages that I may use one day in my own writing. ). What do you en1oy listening to in the world of musi$B I listened mainly to $lassi$al musi$ on the $lassi$al 89 station while living in Perth in the last do"en years of my 8. employment /1)>>!1)))0 as well as some from the fol# pop and ro$# worlds. 3ow that I live in =eorge .own northern .asmania in these years of the early evening of my life/1))) to 20120 this is also true only hardly any pop ro$# and fol# and mu$h more 1a"" and $lassi$al. I have written about my tastes and interests in musi$ sin$e my adoles$en$e in other pla$es and I refer readers here to the se$tion of my website on musi$ for the #ind of detail that would lead to proli&ity if I in$luded it here. 10. What food $ould you not live withoutB I would miss my wifeHs $oo#ing and Persian and 9e&i$an food if I was $ut off from them. It must be said though /answering this ,uestion 1* years after beginning to answer it0 now that I live in northern .asmania I rarely eat Persian and 9e&i$an food. 3ow that I am retired I hardly miss these foods. I en1oy the food I get that my wife and I prepare and only eat a Persian meal or a 9e&i$an meal perhaps on$e a year now. Go I miss itB Jes and no. I en1oy eating when I am hungry< hunger is the driving for$e and I en1oy many many foods when I am hungry. If I $ould not have some of these foods IHd be happy with many others. 11. What do you do when you feel a poem $oming onB I get a pie$e of paper and pen or go to my $omputer2word pro$essor and

start writing. 9ost of my poems ta#e less than half an hour. 9y latest boo#let of poetry $omes from my poetry fa$tory as I have o$$asionally $ome to $all this lo$ation for my produ$tion of poetry in =eorge .own .asmania +ustralia where I write these pie$es. I have also $al$ulated the number of poems I have written per day over the last '2 years after a hiatus of 1> years/1)62!1)>00 in my pioneering life in whi$h no re$ord was #ept even though I was writing poetry very o$$asionally very rarely at the time. In the first years of my life 1)*' to 1)62 the influen$es on my writing of poetry in$luded: my mother and grandfather the primary and se$ondary s$hool system in 4ntario and the university I attended. .he 5ahaHi 8aith after 1)-' was also a poeti$ for$e. +ll these poeti$ influen$es were $ompletely unre$ogni"ed as poeti$ influen$es at the time sin$e my interests were mainly sport getting high mar#s at s$hool having fun and dealing with lifeHs ,uotidian and sometimes an&ious events. +. 8rom 1 +ugust 1)>0 to 22 %eptember 2012 there have been 11 ('* days/$ir$a0. 5. .he number of poems written per day is $al$ulated using the following data: (0(-/$ir$a0 poems in 11 ('* /$ir$a0 days to 22 %eptember 2012. .hat wor#s out to: 1 poem in 1.6- days or *.' poems2wee#. A. .he maths: 11 ('*/days0 divided by (0(-/poems0 11. Kow important is life!style and freedom from the demands of employment and other people to your $reative lifeB .hese things be$ame absolutely $ru$ial by my mid fifties. .he Aanadian poet anar$hist literary $riti$ and historian =eorge Wood$o$# /1)12!1))-0 on$e said in an interview that it was very important for his literary wor# that he $ould live as he wished to live. If a 1ob was oppressing him he said he had to leave it. 5oth Wood$o$# and I have done this on several o$$asions but I did not leave the 1obs I did in order to writeRe&$ept for the last 1ob in 1))) when I was --. Wood$o$# bro#e with a university and I bro#e with three .afe $olleges. It's a derogatory thing to say it's a form of evasion of avoidan$e or $owardi$e said Wood$o$# but you have to evade those situations in life in whi$h you be$ome insubordinate to others or situations in whi$h others offend your dignity. Wood$o$# went on to say in that same interview that when one a$ts dramati$ally or pre$ipitatelyRli#e resigning from a 1ob or losing oneHs temper!!it often has $onse,uen$es that are very negative. Ke gave e&amples

from his own life and I $ould give e&amples here< I $ould e&pand on this important theme but this is enough for now. 6eaders who are #een to follow!up on this aspe$t of my life $an read my memoirs. Cverything in my memoirs is true but it has been ;filtered and wor#ed on;. 6eaders tend to thin# a memoir is a $hroni$le or re$ord of a life but as the memoirist @ate Kolden says Mit's a mu$h more subtle form. Jou're $ompressing eliding using your $raft.N %he uses her $raft to present a good story and I use it to present what I hope is a good analysis some a$$urate and honest useful and helpful refle$tions on life to those who read them. 12. Were you popular at s$hool in your primary se$ondary and university daysB I $ertainly was in primary and se$ondary s$hool but not at matri$ulation or university. I did not have the e&perien$e many writers and intelle$tuals have who re$eived early wounds from the Cnglish s$hool system among other influen$es in life. It wasn't merely the dis$ipline at these s$hools< it was the ways in whi$h boys got what was $alled the s$hool spirit. In most Cnglish s$hools it is a brutal #ind of pro!sporty spirit that militates against the intelle$tual who is loo#ed on as a wea#ling. I was popular at s$hool be$ause I was good at sport and I got on with everyone. I $ertainly was not seen as and I was not an intelle$tual. I was good at memori"ing and that is why I did so well but at university I $ould not simply memori"e< I had to thin# and write my own thoughts and my grades went from S+HsH to SAHs. .his was also due to the beginnings of episodes of bipolar I disorder whi$h has affli$ted me off and on all my life. 1*. Jou did not flower early as a writer. .ell us something about the origins of your prose and poeti$ writing. 9any writers flower early. 9any of them be$ome largely forgotten whereas I have a different type of $reativity whi$h seems to be growing in meaning and personal signifi$an$e in power and vitality literally de$ade by de$ade again li#e the Aanadian =eorge Wood$o$#. .his #ind of $reativity over the lifespan is a$tually ,uite abnormal atypi$al. I seem to have been the tortoise or the bull if you're going to use the .aurean symbol. I have been mar$hing forward slowly. I thin# what I am writing now is better than anything IHve ever written in my life. Who #nows what lies ahead. %ome years ago a reporter from 9usi$ian maga"ine as#ed 1a"" pianist +bdullah Ibrahim a ,uestion about when his interest in musi$ began.

Ibrahim said he understood the logi$ of the ,uestion but that he $ouldn't answer it be$ause musi$ had always been part of his day to day living. I feel in a similar way about my relationship to writing. I $an't remember a time when I didn't have a deep investment in writing. 8rom 1)*) to 1)6( the age of - to 2' writing was the very sour$e of my su$$ess and survival in s$hool. If I had not developed the $apa$ity to write well I would never have got good grades and gone up the a$ademi$ ladderRbut I had to wor# at the pro$ess ba$# then. +ny signifi$ant literary su$$ess any published wor# did not $ome really until I was nearly forty. 1-. What sort of relationships do you have these daysB I was reading about the Aanadian writer =eorge Wood$o$# whom I have already mentioned in this series of ,uestions and answers. Ke said that he did not have all that many friends who were writers. Ke #new their problems but he did not #now the problems of painters. Ke said that he li#ed to move among painters mathemati$ians psy$hologists and people who $ould tell him something. 5y my mid!fifties I had had enough of people telling me about things any things. I had been both a listening post a reader and a tal#er for so many years I was a bit of a burnt!out $ase and wanted to shut my ears to the endless $hatter of life by the age of -- in 1))). If I wanted to #now about stuff about any parti$ular person I $ould read wat$h .: listen to the radio or google. If I wanted some so$ial life I $ould visit a small $ir$le of people in the little town I live in that I too# a sea! $hange to near the mouth of a river by the sea. +fter an hour or so of $onversation and various forms of so$ial intera$tion I usually had enough and loo#ed forward to my return to solitude. Gue to my medi$ations by the age of 6- and perhaps due to being in my middle years/6-!(-0 of late adulthood/60!>00 I found more than two hours with people in any form too# me to the edge of my psy$hologi$al stamina patien$e my $oping $apa$ity. It was better for me to see# out solitude after two hours to preserve the ,uality of my relationships and not to Mblot!my! $opyboo# N as my wife often put it when I indulged in some emotional e&$ess some verbal $riti$ism of others or gave vent to some #ind of spleen whi$h often resulted after that two hours!!!due to my mental illness my bipolar disorder. In the 1' years sin$e I retired I have been on a series of medi$ation shifts whi$h have altered my psy$ho!emotional life. 3ow I spend 12 hours a day in bed for an > to ) hour sleep and wor# at literary a$tivity for 6 to > hours a day.

16. Kow would you des$ribe the so$ial outrea$h in your poetryB I rarely point a finger dire$tly at some guilty party organi"ation person or movement< sometimes there is a subtle psy$hologi$al base to a poem that hints at or implies some evil in someoneHs $ourt. 9y poetry is ,uite e&pli$itly non!partisan. I have dealt with this issue several times in my series of 26 interviews. It is an important ,uestion be$ause the wider world often 1udges a person by the e&tent to whi$h they engage with or in the ,ui&oti$ tournament of so$ial and politi$al issues in our global $ommunity. I donHt shout at any multinational or rave for some environmental group. When I do shout and rave it is about other things and there's nothing subtle about my shouting and raving and in the pro$ess probably little depth in those prose!poems of mine either. With millions of readers now in $yberspa$e IHd say I now have a so$ial outrea$h wider more e&tensive than any IHve had in my life. 1(. %ome poets see their wor# as a form of so$ial $riti$ism and li#e the Aanadian poet Irving 7ayton for e&ample they rage against so$iety and some of what they see as so$ietyHs illnesses and in1usti$es. Where does your poetry fit into this pi$tureB 9any of 7ayton's more than forty published volumes of poetry are prefa$ed by s$athing atta$#s on those who would sha$#le a poet's imagination< over the years he has used the media and the le$ture hall to passionately and publi$ly de$ry so$ial in1usti$e. 5ut perhaps his loudest and most sustained protest has been against a restri$tive puritanism that inhibits the $elebration and e&pression of human se&uality. 9y poetry is not an e&pression of s$athing atta$#s on anything< nor is it a passionate and publi$ poeti$ vis!a! vis that ,ui&oti$ tournament of so$ial issues that are paraded in front of me day after day in the print and ele$troni$ media. I see my poetry as an e&tension of the whole 5ahZ'[ approa$h to so$ial issues and individual engagement with these issues. .here are several 5ahZ'[ boo#s whi$h e&plore this ,uite $omple& sub1e$t. 4ne of the best was published 2- years ago. It is entitled Air$le of Lnity: 5ahZ'[ +pproa$hes to Aurrent %o$ial Issues. I en$ourage readers to have a loo# at it if they would li#e a more $omplete answer to this ,uestion a ,uestion that I $annot answer in a small paragraph. +s far as the imagination is $on$erned it is not in my view the opposite of fa$ts or the enemy of fa$ts. .he imagination depends upon fa$ts< it feeds on them in order to produ$e beauty or invention or dis$overy. .he true enemy

of the imagination is la"iness and habit as well as an ineffe$tive use of leisure!time. .he enemy of imagination is the idleness that provides fan$y. I am not $on$erned as 7ayton was with a restri$tive puritanism that inhibits the $elebration and e&pression of human se&uality. I have many $on$erns in the pro$ess of writing poetry and 1ournals essays and narrative autobiography. I would li#e to emphasi"e here that authenti$ histori$al do$uments mine and those of others are produ$ts of the human mind and language< this is reality itself. 6eality $ould be seen as a white light whi$h ea$h person sees on a spe$trum of $olour. Insofar as reality is thought I deal in human reality all the time when I am writing and reading. 1>. Go you thin# travelling has been $ru$ial to your writingB .he Aanadian poet +l Purdy/1)1>!20000 admitted ,uite $learly that if he hadn't travelled he wouldn't have written very mu$h. Ke felt that he had to go further out in the world and e&perien$e pla$e in order to write. Ke was one of the most popular and important Aanadian poets of the 20th $entury. Purdy's writing $areer spanned more than fifty years. Kis wor#s in$lude over thirty boo#s of poetry a novel two volumes of memoirs and four boo#s of $orresponden$e. Ke has been $alled AanadaHs ;unoffi$ial poet laureate; and ;a national poet in a way that you only find o$$asionally in the life of a $ulture.; I did not travel the way Purdy did. I 1ust #ept moving to new towns some two do"en. 8or a great many reasons largely asso$iated with my bipolar disorder as well as some ine&pli$able fatigue with tal#ing and listening I be$ame too tired perhaps too old too worn!out too si$# too poor!!!! goodness!!!what a sad tale ehB 3ow I travel in my head and through the print and ele$troni$ media. +nd yes travel in both these forms has been absolutely $ru$ial to my produ$tivity but it ways that are diffi$ult to e&plain sin$e they span several de$ades. 1). Go you li#e tal#ing about poetryB =ary =eddes tells/In ItHs %till Winter: + WC5 I4L63+7 48 A43.C9P46+6J A+3+GI+3 P4C.6J +3G P4C.IA% :ol. 2 3o. 1 8all 1))(0 a great story of Gouglas Gunn who was writer in residen$e at Kull. Gunn wanted to meet the famous 5ritish poet 7ar#in. 5ut 7ar#in was a $urmudgeon. Ke hated poetsO Gouglas Gunn was told by friends who #new 7ar#in that if he wanted to meet 7ar#in then he had to ma#e sure he didn't ever tal# about poetry. Ke $ould tal# about 1a"" and anything else but not poetry. %o these friends arranged this meeting and left the two of them in the pub. 8inally after a few beers 7ar#in leaned a$ross the table

and said ;there are too many poets in this university. Jour 1ob as writer in residen$e is to get rid of them.; I donHt feel li#e this at all although I $an appre$iate 7ar#inHs sentiments. If I want some $ongenial poeti$ spirits I read their poetry or I read about them but I have no strong desire to meet and have a $hat. 5ut I li#e to write about poetry and that is why IHve simulated these 26 interviews. I am fas$inated by the development of poetry in my life and see# to understand how and why both my interest and my writing have arisen. 20. Go you li#e reading poetryB =ary =eddes says in the same interview I ,uoted above that when he was translating a boo# of Ahinese poetry with a =eorge 7eong =eorge would often bring him the most depressing and melan$holi$ poems in Ahinese to translate. =eddes would say: ;=eorge you gotta give me something else I $an't bear all of this stuff.N I feel that same way about a lot of poetry indeed most $ontemporary $lassi$al and poetry from any period of history. I 1ust donHt $onne$t with it. 9y mind and heart do not engage in its $ontent or style or both. 4ften I 1ust donHt understand what the poets are saying. .he poets I do engage with hit home ,uite deeply but they are relatively few. .hey are also people I am only now dis$overing sin$e my retirement sin$e I have the time to read and not engage in a 60 to >0 hour a wee# filled with people and responsibilities. 21. Go you use metaphor in your poetry to any e&tentB 3ot anywhere near as mu$h as IHd li#e as mu$h as e&ists in its poeti$ potential. +ristotle on$e wrote that the ability to see relationships between things is the mar# of poeti$ genius. I would not want to ma#e the $laim to be a poeti$ genius< how $ould one ever ma#e su$h a presumptuous preposterous $laim. 5ut I see relationships between things all over the pla$e. ItHs one of the great motivators in why I write. I want to develop my use of metaphor in my poetry. I donHt thin# IHve really ta#en off yet in my effe$tive use of metaphor. .he philosopher Paul 6i$oeur/1)1'!200-0 sees mood and metaphor as the basis of the unity of a poem of poetry itself. Writing poetry is $ertainly a mood thing for me and IHd li#e to ma#e it mu$h more of a metaphor thing as well. When emotion and intelle$t $onverge in imaginative writing writing for e&ample that draws on metaphor readers $an be transported to another life!world a type of =estalt a 7ebenswelt to use the philosopher Cdmund KusserlHs/1>-)!1)'>0 term. +ny trans$enden$e that results for me

and the reader of my wor# is not due to being ta#en to another realm at least not $ons$iously. +ny sense of trans$enden$e that does ta#e pla$e is due to seeing meaning hidden meaning meaning that did not e&ist before in my or my readerHs e&perien$e in the things and thoughts themselves. 4ne goes beyond the familiar and finds fleeting moments ri$h in imaginative detail. .here is a world outside language as the Aanadian poet Gon 9$@ay/1)*2! 0 asserts. It is very diffi$ult to translate that world but some poetry $an do this $an ma#e this translation with $onvi$tion and delight. IHd li#e to $ome ba$# to this ,uestion several years from now when IHm in my (0s or even >0s. 22. What do you see as the fun$tion of a poetB + poet has many fun$tions but two fun$tions of this poet that interest me to answer this ,uestion off the $uff so to spea# is: /a0 to dis$over and distil the labour and the genius of the 5ahZ'[ e&perien$e and /b0 to give e&pression to the delight and the love that are at the heart of writing. .he Aanadian poet +.I. 9. %mith wrote this in 1)-*. %mith had a preo$$upation with death as I have although not as intense and not in the same way as %mithHs. 4ut of his preo$$upation with death he made poetry. I have made my poetry out of this and other preo$$upations. .he medi$ations IHve ta#en in the last de$ade or so have softened my interest in the sub1e$t of death. 8rom a 5ahZ'[ perspe$tive of $ourse the arts and s$ien$es in general and poetry in parti$ular should Mresult in advantage to man N Mensure his progress N and Melevate his ran#N < that musi$ is a ladder for our souls Ma means whereby they may be lifted up into the realm on highN < that the art of drama will be$ome Ma great edu$ational powerN < that when a painter ta#es up her paint brush it is as if she were Mat prayer in the .empleN < that the arts fulfil Mtheir highest purpose when showing forth the praise of =odN< and that Mmusi$ art and literature...are to represent and inspire the noblest sentiments and highest aspirations.N .he leader of the 5ahaHi $ause from 1)21!1)-( saw su$h spiritual power in the arts that he predi$ted they would eventually do mu$h to help it spread the spirit of love and unity. .he poet as I say has those two fun$tions and many others that I write about in the millions of words readers will find if they get into my oeuvre. 2'. When you tal# about art and the arts what do you meanB When I say MartN or Mthe arts N I mainly have in mind those that are $ommonly referred to as Mfine artsN su$h as poetry painting s$ulpture theatri$al drama film musi$ dan$e and others. 5ut I also have in mind the

Mdesign arts N su$h as ar$hite$ture and urban design as well as the $rafts su$h as pottery and rug!weaving be$ause these arts operate on a spiritual as well as a material plane. 6eaders $an now google the sub1e$t at lo$ations in $yberspa$e li#e Wi#ipedia for answers to fa$tual ,uestions li#e this one. 2*. What do you see when you loo# in the mirrorB I have a photo whi$h I post at many internet sites. .he $aption the des$riptive $omment on this photo reads: M.his full!frontal fa$ial view! photo ta#en in 200* when I was 60 in Kobart .asmania has a light side and a dar# side. It is an appropriate photo to symboli"e my lower and higher natures. .hese are natures that rea$h for spiritual for intelle$tual and $ultural attainment on the one hand and rea$h for and get $aught!up in2with the world of mire and $lay and its shadowy and ephemeral atta$hments. 4f $ourse when I loo# in the mirror there is not this $lear di$hotomy of light and shadow. When I loo# in the mirror I see an e&ternal self a fa$e whi$h bears a relationship with my real self a self whi$h is not my body. 9y real self is an un#nown ,uantity and my fa$e really tells me very little about this real self. +nd so to answer your ,uestion I see what nearly everyone else sees: eyes ears nose mouth $hee#s et$. I also see that: I need a shave< I need to put some ointment on my s#in< I need to $omb my hair or $ut my mousta$he. 2-. What would you bring to this interview to Sshow!and!tellH if you $ould bring only one itemB +nd what would you say about that item. 9y mother!in!law who is now )'/i.e. 20120 and lives in a little town $alled 5eauty Point in northern .asmania a$ross the .amar 6iver from where I live has a little figure in her lounge!room. It is a small figure of three mon#eys. It has a label on it: see no evil hear no evil and spea# no evil. It always reminds me of a ,uotation from 5ahZ'u'llZhHs boo# Kidden Words. .he ,uotation goers li#e this and it is this of whi$h I wish to tell: M4 A49P+3I43 48 9J .K643CO Kear no evil and see no evil abase not thyself neither sigh and weep. %pea# no evil that thou mayest not hear it spo#en unto thee and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great< and wish not the abasement of anyone that thine own abasement be not e&posed. 7ive then the days of thy life that are less than a fleeting moment with thy mind stainless thy heart unsullied thy thoughts pure and thy nature san$tified so that free and $ontent thou mayest put away this mortal frame and repair unto the mysti$ paradise and abide in the eternal #ingdom for evermore.N !5ahZ'u'llZh Persian Kidden

Words p. **. 26. .al# a little bit about the types of poetry written and read todayB .he famous +meri$an essayist Ioseph Cpstein wrote over 20 years ago that: M%ometimes it seems as if there isnHt a poem written in this nation that isnHt subsidi"ed or underwritten by a grant either from a foundation or the government or a tea$hing salary or a fellowship of one #ind or another.N Gana =ioia wrote that Mthe first ,uestion one poet now as#s another upon being introdu$ed is SWhere do you tea$hBHN Gana =ioia MAan Poetry 9atterB N %tlantic Monthly 9ay 1))1. =ioia himself a$#nowledges a heritage of a $ommentary of $on$ern for the health of poetry e&tending from Cdmund WilsonHs MIs :erse a Gying .e$hni,ueBN/1)'*0 through to Ioseph CpsteinHs MWho @illed PoetryBN /1)>>0. 5ut performan$e poetry is alive and well and in $ontrast is based in spee$h. Walter I. 4ng so elo,uently demonstrated that this poetry is fundamentally other than writing. %ound he writes Mis not simply perishable but essentially evanes$ent and it is sensed as evanes$ent.N .hese are performan$es of poetry some now $all mi$!poetry that pra$ti$e a poeti$s of openness and engagement and in doing so inherently refuse offi$ial institutional surveillan$e. .his mi$!poetry and its venues utili"e spa$e not $onstru$ted for $ultural displays spa$es su$h as bars and $offeehouses. I will draw on the words of 6ollo 9ay the man who introdu$ed e&istential psy$hology to the L%+ and whose writings influen$ed me ba$# in the 1)(0s and still do. MIf you do not e&press your own original ideas N wrote 9ay Mif you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself. +lso you will have betrayed your $ommunity in failing to ma#e your $ontribution to the whole.N M+ $hief $hara$teristi$ of this $ourage N he went on to say Mis that it re,uires a $enteredness within oneHs own being. .his is why we must always base our $ommitment in the $entre of our own being or else no $ommitment will be ultimately authenti$.N Ln$ons$ious insights or answers to problems that $ome in reverie do not $ome hit or miss. .hey may indeed o$$ur at times of rela&ation or in fantasy or at other times when we alternate play with wor#. 5ut what is entirely $lear to me is that they pertain to those areas in whi$h a person $ons$iously has wor#ed laboriously and with dedi$ation. .he Gionysian prin$iple of e$stasy is often the result: a magnifi$ent summit

of $reativity whi$h a$hieves a union of form and passion with order and vitality. I en$ourage readers to read 9ayHs boo#s. .hey were and are an intelle$tual and spiritual delight for me and they answer mu$h more fully these topi$s for whi$h you wanted a $omment. Aount 5asie's great drummer Io Iones on$e said his 1ob was not so mu$h to play the drums as it was to get himself into the #ind of $ondition where he $ould play the things he $ould imagine. I thin# that's my 1ob too but imagination is only part of the story and perspiration effort and wor# is the other )) per $ent. 2(. Popular and mass $ulture on the one hand and intelle$tual!elitist edu$ated!high $ulture on the other are both eviden$ed in the many millions of words in your poems essays and boo#s. Aould you $omment on this di$hotomy in your life and writingsB Part 1: In re$ent years sin$e my early retirement from 8. and P. wor# in my late fifties!!!in the late 1))0sRand as we entered the 'rd millennium and even more so now that I am 6> on two old age pensions and have immersed myself totally in reading and writing resear$h editing and publishing I have $ome to understand more $learly how my investments in these two $ultures were shaped as far ba$# as my $hildhood. 9y father be$ame an adult in 1)11 before the =reat War and my mother during that war in 1)1(. I was a $hild of a wor#ing $lass immigrant father and a mother who was also the $hild of a wor#ing $lass immigrant father. .hey viewed edu$ation ideas and $ulture with reveren$e. .his was espe$ially true of my mother. 9y mother her brother her sister and her father read boo#s lots of boo#s. .hey listened to $lassi$al musi$ and were interested in the arts generally. .hey be$ame reasonably #nowledgeable about the arts although not a$ademi$ally so. .heir formal edu$ation was never beyond high s$hool. .hey were what we $all autodida$ts. .his ba$#ground $reated in them a disposition against popular $ulture to some e&tent. Perhaps they had a fear that $ommon tastes might ma#e them appear undis$erning and unworthy. I donHt #now. .hey were part of my daily life until I was 21 in 1)6- when my father died and I moved out of the family home. 9y father had a number of wor#ing $lass 1obs was a passionate gardener and read the newspaper more than boo#s. Ke was no elitist. .hey both listened and dan$ed to popular musi$ loved motion pi$tures and played and followed sports among other interests.

Part 2: .he years after World War II transformed popular $ulture in important ways. .he enormous e&pansion of $onsumer spending the rise of new $ommuni$ations media espe$ially .: and the in$orporation of distin$t Curopean +meri$an ethni$ $ultures and $ommunities into a more generali"ed white identity left me with a different view of $ulture than the one that made sense to my parents. .he $omfortable lower middle $lass home $ommunity and $ulture in whi$h I grew up was a happy one. 5efore the age of 1> in 1)62 I imagined that professional athletes inhabited a world I wanted to be a part of. In my late $hildhood and teens I lost myself in a Aanadian $ulture defined by my small hometown: its baseball ho$#ey and football players< pi$tures of sporting heros printed on the ba$#s of $ards that I $olle$ted and its trinity of religious orthodo&y: Aatholi$ Protestant and Iew. I was drawn to ro$# and roll radio programs movies and that world of sport. 9y little world was defined by the ;down home; musi$ and humor of dis$ 1o$#eys by the ,uiet theatri$ality festivity and sensuality of mass mediated wor#ing $lass $ulture and family s$hool and a little $ir$le of friends. Part ': I had my first symptoms of bi!polar disorder at the age of 1> and went on to university: 1)6'!1)6( still battling the disorder although it was not diagnosed until I was 2*. While I was studying the so$ial s$ien$es at university in the wor#ing $lass S lun$h!pailH $ity of Kamilton I began to see my $ulture li#e a #ind of suffo$ating tedium and type of tyranny. It was during these years that my interests in the 5ahZ'[ 8aith developed and these interests helped to give me a balan$e between the intelle$tual!high $ulture and the more populist aspe$ts of $ulture. +nd the rest is history as they say. I have now had half a $entury sin$e then 1)62!2012 of an interest in both popular and high $ulture and am very very far from being an authority on either indeed on anything. Part *: .he Aanadian poet +r$hibald 7ampman who $hampioned the idea of variety of sub1e$ts and styles as a poeti$ virtue wrote in his essay on

MPoeti$ InterpretationN /$. 1>)-0 that: Mthe perfe$t poet would have no set style. Ke would have a different one for everything he would write a manner e&a$tly suited to the sub1e$t.N It seems to me as I now survey the last two de$ades of an enormous poeti$ output that I have $ome to a$,uire a $ertain style although the $ontent is immensely varied from elitist to popular $ulture. 2>. What do you thin# readers $an learn from your prose that they $anHt from your poetryB 2>. .o answer this ,uestion allow me to begin with the words of a leading +meri$an $riti$ of poetry Kelen :endler. %he notes in her review of +meri$an poet 6obert KassHs -00 page series of essays entitled ,hat 6ight 4an 7o: 3ssays on Art, (magination, and the -atural ,orld in The 4ew ?or+ *e)iew of (oo+s 2(2)2H12!!!that: MPoetsH prose is in a $ategory all its own. It enlarges for readers the idea of a writerHs mind and also demonstrates aspe$ts of his $hara$ter. .o a reader #nowing only the poetry there $an be surprises for e&ample: CmersonHs aphoristi$ 1ournals WhitmanHs fa$t!filled memoranda of the Aivil War or .horeauHs memories of his dead brother in + Wee# on the Aon$ord and 9errima$# 6ivers. PoetsH prose $an be formal and reti$ent as is the $ase in ..%. CliotHs writing< or it $an be intimately painful as in 6obert 7owellHs a$$ount of his time in Payne Whitney /M8rom the Lnbalan$ed +,uariumN0. What 'ight 2an 0o $olle$ts the poet 6obert KassHs essays of the last twenty years in whi$h we hear a disarming voi$e spea#ing as if to friends. Kis prose has an unusually wide range: he has written not only on other poets but also on photographers /6obert +dams 6obert 5uelteman 7aura 9$Phee0 and fi$tion writers /Ia$# 7ondon Ahe#hov Aorma$ 9$Aarthy 9a&ine Kong @ingston0.N :endler $ontinues: MKassHs first instin$t in writing prose is to ta#e on the manner of a born storyteller transporting us to a well!des$ribed settingR biographi$al e$ologi$al or personalRand naturali"ing us so to spea# into an imaginative atmosphere. In other hands an essay $alled MWalla$e %tevens in the WorldN might not begin: M9y nineteenth birthday was also the birthday of one of my $ollege friends.N 3or might a pie$e on the 8irst Cpistle of %aint Iohn open with: MIn my grade!s$hool $lassroom in 3orthern Aalifornia there were pi$tures pinned to the bulletin boards representing the 7ast %upper.N 4ther essays begin more straightforwardly but not without a deliberate will to surprise. .he intriguing MAhe#hovHs +ngerN invites us in with a blunt and unsettling

opening: MIn his 1ournals Ahe#hov notes two reasons why he doesnHt li#e a lawyer of his a$,uaintan$e. 4ne is that he is very stupid< the other is that he is a reptile.N In my $ase readers will find my prose e&ists in my poetry as well as in my essays and autobiography. .o ma#e a long story short I thin# I $ould go so far as to say my prose and poetry are virtually indistinguishable. .hat is why I $all it prose!poetry. Aon$luding Aomment: I began as#ing and answering these ,uestions in 1))6 as I indi$ated at the start of this simulated interview. I added more ,uestions and answers as I also said at the outset of this interview more than a de$ade later from 200) to 2012. .he last update to the above 2> ,uestions as well as the 10 ,uestions that opened this simulation was made 1* years after beginning this pro$ess of ,uestion and answer!!!on 10 3ovember 2012. .otal: ()00 words and 20 +!* pages. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cnd of do$ument UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU married for ** years a tea$her for '- a writer D editor for 12 and a 5aha'i for -2/in 20110 7ast edited by 6onPri$e on 9on Ge$ 2* 2012 10:-2 am edited 6 times in total.

To *onPrice Post sub=ect- 6e: .K+3@% +3G +A@34W7CG=C9C3.%/Part 60 Posted- %at 3ov 10 2012 6:*6 am If I pause and refle$t any more on this sub1e$t of!!!.K+3@% +3G +A@34W7CG=C9C3.%!!!I $ould e&press many more words to many more people and pla$es organi"ations and things. Perhaps I will add more as the evening of my life heads for nightfall in the years of my life that remain the years beyond (0. %ome human development psy$hologists $all the years from (0 to >0 the last de$ade of late adulthood before old age begins at >0. %ome of these same psy$hologists have ' phases of old!age: early old!age/>0!)00 middle old!age/)0!1000 and old!old age/100QQ0. If I last to the age of 100 the year will be 20**.

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8or now though the above five posts on this thread with their *0 000 to -0 000 words and 120 to 1*0 pages in font!1* will suffi$e. %ome readers may find the in$lusion of my resume a $urious addition. In adding my resume I must in the pro$ess give than#s and a$#nowledge all those who made the a$hievements to say nothing of my many failures and failings of a lifetime possible. 4ne's failings of $ourse are generally not in$luded in one's A: even though they are $ru$ial learning e&perien$es. Without others all that we a$hieve would never ta#e pla$e. +dam that mythologi$al $reature needed Cve for without her all or at least many of his moral parameters/or hers0 in life would not have e&isted. Without readers a writer and author a poet and publisher an editor and resear$her an online 1ournalism and blogger a s$holar and reader li#e myself would hardly e&ist. Writers need readers li#e tal#ers need listeners. I began the above - posts on 2* 4$tober 2012 and it is my intention to update this statement from time to time. .he last update was on 2-212'1' more than ' months after beginning this parti$ular #ind of overview of my life and nearly * wee#s sin$e the opening of 201'. !6on Pri$e +ustralia. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU married for ** years a tea$her for '- a writer D editor for 12 and a 5aha'i for -2/in 20110