William Hay, winner of 3 Kenneth R. Wilson Writing Awards and Folio Award, Canadian Author Association member,author of Caesarean Section and Love Between the Sacred and Profane poetry books, and Psychiatry and Addiction, Personal Perspective book, magazine short story and prose columnist.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Tom, Gilbert and Bill aboat in Coal Harbour
When I got back from wandering around Commercial and Main Street with Gilbert after church Tom was at the dock. I invited him over to the boat for dinner. Before we got down to chow though we all had to go out in the new AB12 Profile Inflatable with the Honda 30 HP 4 stroke Outboard. After getting us out in the harbour I let Tom take over the helm. I had the Hero 3 camera mounted. I had hoped for more 'action' but it captured Gilbert and me instead. I got the shot of Tom with the iphone movie camera. It was a great Sunday evening drive about the neighbourhood. When we got back, I set Tom to barbecuing the porkchops I'd bought the day before on Granville Island while I baked potatoes in the microwave, boiled carrots on the gas stove and got out the sour cream and butter for the potatoes. We had a feast while watching Men in Black 3 Blu ray DVD. Tom hadn't seen it but I was glad to watch it again while we devoured a bag of BC Cherries. Gilbert loved cleaning up the plates and eating some of the pork chops we shared with him. A good evening was had by all.
I began writing travel stories in grade 3. My mother was a journalist. I started publishing poetry and photography in high school. Dancing and acting followed with study in England with the world champion after bicycling across Europe. Medical school was also a time of canoeing and cross country skiing. Dad was a great outdoorsman. Country general practice was followed by northern fly in medicine. Completing a medicine fellowship and specializing in psychiatry, I did my California medical examinations before returning north to British Columbia where I began big game hunting, chicken farmed and sailed. Eventually, I solo sailed to Hawaii through winter storms. An island psychiatrist in Saipan, the weekly scuba diving was spectacular.Back in Canada, living on the sailboat,my Harley Davidson motorcycle became a whole new source of adventure.
Raised Baptist, I taught sunday school for the United Church and eventually became Anglican a decade back. Bible study, Yogananda, Tai Chi, AA, celtic and native studies all added to that ecumenical Christian spirituality.
Blessed by a loving family, beautiful partners, friends, pets and resilient house plants, life's a miracle.
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