photo: americanoceans.org
HorseshoeCrabClub.com
This is The Horseshoe Crab Club.
This website is about people who live like horseshoe crabs.
Welcome!
This website is about people who live like horseshoe crabs.
Horseshoe crabs are sea creatures, self-contained and armored against interaction.
Some people are like that, and I too have a streak of this in me.
We use the term 'introvert' for folks like this.
People assign certain animal behaviors to certain humans:
Sly as a fox
Like a bull in a china shop
Quiet as a church mouse
So, I have no problem adopting the Horsehoe Crab as our mascot.
Introverts are selectively social - and their personal space is their armor.
And even if horseshoe crabs don't look comfortable - they look cool.
The purpose of this website is to help self-isolators and others, understand why we are the way we are.
Some of these ways are okay, but some un-social habits are counterproductive to ourselves and to others.
We'll explore a lot of hidden places and some uncomfortable topics.
We will discuss differences between:
* simple introversion,
* forms of rejection which creates defensive isolation - seen as introversion.
* forms of abuse that causes people to hide from others.
* haughtiness, where people segregate from those they think are beneath them.
Note the topic-titles at the top of this page.
These headings address the various aspects of introversion or isolationism.
Some of these topics lead straight to another website on that very topic.
Thanks for visiting!
Eric J. Rose
(more pieces below, scroll down)
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Note: I am a layman; not licensed, certified, ordained, or degree-ed
in any somatic or mental health field, in any legal or law enforcement capacity, or as clergy.
Note: I am a layman; not licensed, certified, ordained, or degree-ed
in any somatic or mental health field, in any legal or law enforcement capacity, or as clergy.
But I am nearly 70-years-old, and this website has decades of observations about human nature.
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(This site is always under construction. As an unfinished product, it is always subject to additions, proofreading, etc.)
More below ...........>>>
page arrangement
Each page of this website is built like a short passenger train,
sections are joined together in a string.
Browse it like your cell phone.
A page may have a few sections.
Please read down until you reach the end of the track on each page.
sections are joined together in a string.
Browse it like your cell phone.
A page may have a few sections.
Please read down until you reach the end of the track on each page.
photo: houstonpublicmedia.org
Our mascot...
Since Horseshoe Crabs are our mascot, we need to know something about them.
Being an inlander raised in Iowa, I was fascinated with sea creatures and first read about horseshoe crabs at about 10-years-old, from a Reader's Digest Book.
I thought of them as little tanks, with sabers.
In the USA, they live in shallow coastal waters along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
With a 20 year lifespan they begin to reproduce at 10 years old, spawning into nests onshore.
The blue blood of horseshoe crabs contains a lot of copper. An extract from the blood,
limulus amebocyte lysate, coagulates around bacterial toxins when it touches them.
This is an important tool in US infection control practices, including the testing of medicines.
Donor-crabs are captured from the wild, some their blood is harvested,
and then they are returned to the water. Their blood is then processed for medical use.
I've read that a 10-30% mortality rate of donor-crabs is causing concern
about our future supply of Horseshoe Crabs and their blood extract -
and their existence as a unique creature.
(though certain entities are trying to create artificial substitutes for their blood).
I once worked in a hospital's Environmental Services Department,
so infection control issues interest me.
(see the 'Nosocomial Infections' article in the 'Science' section of this website.)
But...horseshoe crabs...are cool !!
