Russell F Cowgill's Page

Soft, gentle rain gathering into murky pools

Now flowing together as a happy brook

Laughing, jumping as it trickles down

Giving life to all it touches.



Brook meets brook, together one inseparable

They press forward moving rock and all

Crashing over, plummeting down they fall

Creative, destructive, unbridled passion.



All they touch, forever changed

Valley to canyon, canyon to gorge

Manic toward home, oblivious oblivion

Alpha and… Continue

I have come to understand that we are all connected. What I do in my life affects your life. If I have respect and reverance for the earth and its inhabitants it has a ripple effect. The same is true of disrespect and selfish acts that suck up life and love. We can see all too well the effects of disrespect and selfishness as history is full of examples of the devistation to peoples, animals, forests, waters. The culture of "I" is a culture of devastation.



There are a few examples of… Continue

My profile:



I could tell you about my statistics but that wouldn’t tell you anything about who I am and that is what I want to say here.



I tend to think of myself in terms of roles I have played and what they have taught me because after all these are the things that make me who I am today.



As a child I grew up in a rural eastern Oregon community quite isolated from the usual close peer relationships that city kids knew. As a result I was quite shy and awkward… Continue