User:Tom Lougheed
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[edit] Tom Lougheed
User Tom Lougheed is currently pursuing a late-life Ph.D. in Mathematics, with emphasis in Mathematics Education, at Washington State University.
Formerly a contract computer programmer and analyst specializing in Celestial Mechanics and Numerical Analysis, he previously worked for NASA and other government agencies. He remains an amateur astronomer and astronomy educator, and and fervently believes in integrated science and mathematics education.
Mr. Lougheed has a long-time an interest in ancient western cultures, particularly in their mythology and folktales, and hence the archaic religion of Indo-European peoples.
He has been a peer counselor and teacher of peer counseling in a dissident branch of Re-evaluation Counseling in Monterey since the early 1990's. He also has been trained as a peer counselor in Jungian dream analysis. He recently became a Master Mason.
[edit] Messages and Discussion
I apparently created quite a controversy by entering a section in the article on emotion that describes human feelings as being reducable to only 5 (maybe 6) foundational emotions, each of which is inherantly connected to a body sensation.
[edit] Chinook Jargon
User Skookum1 asked where my Chinook Jargon comes from. Please note that I only know a few words, although I've been surprised from studying Chinook that what little I know, I didn't know I knew.
- My family are old settlers; the first batch immigrated to the Washington Territory from other parts of the United States just before the territory's formation, the last arriving before the end of the American Civil War. Their homes were along the middle reaches of the Chehalis River, mostly between the towns of Montesano and Porter. My great-great grandfather, Rev. Sam Lougheed, was a circut preacher on the Olympic Peninsula; some of my family's jargon may come from what he learned circling the penninsula.
- As young men, Sam's grandsons, my grandfather and his several brothers, were loggers in the Black Hills and the southern Olympic Mountains. I rather expect that most of the jargon that I inherited came from the logging camps. My father's parents were good friends with a Quinault woman and some of her family. They were eager learners, and may well have picked up more Chinook Jargon or Salishan from her.
