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My Grandparents

Cousin Gilmour Allan

This is me, Christina, the Web maker

Bud Quinn and I live 16 miles NE of Washougal Washington USA, which is 250 south of Vancouver BC
and 40 miles east of Portland Oregon

    I grew up in Vancouver BC and now live in the woods east of Washougal, 35 miles NE of Portland OR. To be employed, I acquired a BS and MA in Business. To generate additional funds, I was also part-time business consultant, college-level Environmental Science and Social Psychology instructor. To stay in good with God in case there is a conditional hereafter, I cared for my 90-year-old mother for 6 years until she passed away. (She told me that if she lived with me 12 more years, she’ll consider us even.:).

   To enhance my life, I enjoy cooking, photography, computer graphics, gardening, outdoor model railroading, metal detecting, camping, woodworking, hiking, and more. To acquire patience, I occasionally shop at K-Mart and have taught Francis the Cat tricks, including 'Patty Cake and ‘shake a paw.’

     I first went to work administering an agency that helped developmentally disabled adults transition from institutions to the community; became director of a center that employed and trained developmentally and mentally challenged adults; then went to the WA Div. of Vocational Rehabilitation as administrator of training programs. While there, I was also a national surveyor of Rehabilitation Facilities and a board member of JTPA jobs program. I switched from saving people to saving cans as manager of Alcoa’s (Aluminum Company of America) recycling operations in the Western US and Canada. (Cans are much less resistant to being saved than people.)

After leaving Alcoa, I obtained a Ph.D. degree in Ecopsychology. I chose this new field of endeavor because I am intellectually and spiritually attracted to two areas of study – nature preservation and human enrichment – after reading the statements of other doctoral students who were discovering ways to communicate with nature and helping nature coexist with man.

On nature preservation Nature’s struggle to maintain its balance inspires me to help it quell society’s appetite for more.

On enrichment…I think personal growth might occur by learning to consistently embrace the ‘here and now’ as the place to spend one’s time. And nature might benefit if I help others feel what I feel when I sit by the river and just ‘know.’ Perhaps the language of ecopsychology will give me words I can use to reveal nature’s soul to others so they will nurture, not destroy, her.

I believe the natural world can show us how to change the underlying structure of our lives so we can be in harmony, rather than in conflict, with nature.

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