Monday, October 31, 2022

Rainy Weekend, Monday Morning

Thank you for this weekend with Laura.  Madigan enjoys these visits as much as me.  
We loved the George Bizet’s Pearl Fishers Performed by the Vancouver Opera Thursday night.  I didn’t work Friday but did my international doctors meeting on line and loved that. 
It rained all day.  I ordered pizza. We watched a movie. I walked Madigan in the rain.  I had a swim and hot tub soak.  
Laura and I read at each end of the couch.  Madigan moved back and forth between us.  
Saturday I made a visit to the chiropractor. The traumatic arthritis has been worse with the barometric weather fluctuations.  Dr. Ready has helped immensely with my mobility. I’m trying to do more stretching exercise.  I’ve been taking handful of ibuprofen, acetominophen and Robaxin. Then I had to take a tect.
In the afternoon we both had a pedicure and manicure at Professionals.  I stayed with red, but got the Christmas sparkle.  Laura chose silver saying she was going for Joanne’s nails. Fun.
We shopped at Reitman’s.  She, for pants, I for a jacket.  I’m pleased with the colours.  Shopping and nails. Then home to Madigan and a hot tub.  
That night I barbecued steaks with potatoes and sour cream, and zucchin with cauliflower and cheese.  I like barbecuing. It was great to see the Bustards shot and elk and later seeing Kendra grinding burger. It found the story of my elk shooting and flipping this ATV.  My back pain today comes mostly from that day.  The beginning, though the plane crash and the car 360 contributed.  So many trauma’s.  
I’m physically disabled now and hoping the sun and dry help the inflammation. I am taking a break from provider protector rescuer. I will be gentle and careful for the month.  I just can’t normally take it easy. I will relax this month. I’m forcing myself to heal and consider my self. I’m planning tai chi in the winter too. Maybe another course on line.  
Can ‘t wait to be on the road and let go of the weight. Lighten up.  Have fun.  
One day I’ll retire. These breaks in routine make it possible for me to continue now.  I’d like to pay off the mortgage without using savings . I’m procrastinating on selling off assets that are depreciating.  It’s just that physically I can’t predict what I will want to do or be capable of doing year to year now.  
Yesterday I missed a meeting. I’d made grouse with curry cumin and cayenne pepper slow cooking in butter with mandarin slices, then poured over saffron rice. It really was tasty but they changed the time of the meeting so again I’ve not adjusted to the new time.  I am a creature of habit and always think of the serenity prayer and change.  I didn’t make it to church.  Heavy downpour all weekend and all we wanted to do was stay inside and  read. I did get to the hot tub again but that was it.
Now Laura’s gone in a taxi.
I’ve put all my valuables in storage. Just a few more days of work and then i’m away.  I’ve pack my suitcase but have to cull the pack. When I’ve thought of something this last week I put it in not knowing for sure if I’d take it but not wanting to forget the consideration.  I’d planned a couple of days camping en route but only if it’s dry. I don’t want to be dealing with wet gear.  I also don’t like getting a motel for an 8 hour sleep.  This is where those chinese airport type sleep places would work but they’d have to be dog friend. The tenting idea is as much for him. It’s hard to find dog friendly accommodation at the last minute and he really does like the outdoors.  He’s going to be in a hotel for some time so it was the idea of a bit wild and freedom before we did the city.
Thank you God for this day. Thank you God for Laura. Thank you for the rain as it helps the plants. Thank you for the delayed summer. Thank you for this home and heat. Thank you for the people I work with. Thank you for Madigan. Thank you for all the blessings.

Thank you. 










Monday, October 24, 2022

SPIKEVAX Bivalent Covid and Omnicron Variant Vaccine (Moderna)

I just received my SPIKEVAX Bivalent -Original/Omnicron (Moderna) Vaccine.  I also had a regular Flu vaccine as the newest vaccine wasn’t available.  This was at Life Care pharmacy with Pharmacist Patel , all very professionally done.  
I prayed before the experience. 
As Christians we fear less about what goes in our body than what comes out.  Historically spiritual folk have survived poisoning and  handled snakes. I don’t think taking a 9mm in would be wise though.  
Half those I know are reasonably anti covid vaccines for themselves.  I know their concerns individually are likely valid.  The public health position is good too despite the fact that the leadership in Canada has been irresponsible and tyrannical making it difficult as a doctor to support their at times draconian positions.  I’ve had 2 covid and 3 boosters and a couple of other vaccines in the last couple of years.  I’m thankful and believe for myself I’m choosing correctly. If I wake up a beatle maybe not.  I loved Metamorphosis. 
I’m here a Starbucks having picked up the mail. I had a small mocha.  I ‘ve chatted with family and Laura.  I’m going to pick up lunch for Madigan and I. I have the afternoon off as I didn’t know how I’d react. Others have been tired and I was after one of the vaccines.  Glad to have so self love,
Loved being at the clinic this morning seeing patients. So enjoyed talking with Belinda and Karen and saying hello to Lydia who’d just returned from a Salt Spring weekend.  When asked why I don’t retire, I say I love working at the clinics.  The people at Royal Columbia Medical Clinic are skookum. Also like Mary Lou and Gary and Dr. Rogers at the Docside Clinic.  I always love seeing patients .  I’m a doctor . They’re sick. I love my work.  Do no harm and help.  I’m thankful but no longer want to deal with administration or tyranny of stupidity or the banality of mediocrity.  I used to get sucked into that drama but now seem to be able to avoid it.  Thank God
God is all of interconnected.  I am the bubble make me the sea.  We are the family of souls, Jesus our brother.  
I am waiting to enter heaven as the last to go through the door. I get to move one when those have gone before.  
I’m kind of coasting.  I don’t feel any need to face major challenges.  I think of working in the jails or for the military.  I wonder about what I’ve not done, the most difficult. I’m already working with the dual diagnosis.  I sailed solo across an ocean but don’t feel like sailing a 40 foot sailboat solo any more. 
I’m looking forward to driving my mini south for a work vacation.  I like the idea of wearing a sun dresss and swimming in a bikini.  Off work I’ll be completely off work. 
There was a medical emergency and I was wearing a dress and I thought I’m old.  I’ve handled dozens of emergencies on holiday, in planes, in trains and more.  But nothing like nails and stockings cause a pause.  Do I reallly want to get involved.  If no one else stepped forward I likely would. But I watched and the young couple who stepped forward had first responder training.  I didn’t need to so relaxed.  Au drab I might forget and serve.  
I want to soak up the rays and relax.  Increasingly I’m delineating work and limited the service. I’m on call but only to return calls every 1-3 days. I was on first call for decades for free and did hospital and clinic call in person countless days and nights for decades.  One in three and one in two. All our service as doctors was stolen by administration who continued to extend their empire while doctors did double time and overtime unpaid.  Recently our service has been denigrated by PM Trudeau who accused doctors of stealing with their RRSP’s.  The greatest most unethical tyrant in Canadian history attacks doctors and gives our personal protection equipment to China and allows the Communist Chines Military and the Communist Chinese Police to operate in Canada.  
I have these intrussive thoughts.  I am having a great day. Despite vaccine and working. It’s a good life. God is good all of the time. I m blessed by family and friends. I’m well fed and well clothed.  All is well. I have peace of mind and joy. I just need to block the past and future.  Resentment and fears break through into my day.  Carpe Diem.
One day at a time. God is in the present.  I need to be here and now. This is the gift of God.

Thank you Jesus. 








Sunday, October 23, 2022

Sunday October

We had the first rain this week after this endless summer of fall. They used to call it ‘Indian’ summer but that might be deemed racist. Everyone is afraid to speak except the language bullies. Comedians are sued in wee hour night clubs. There is always someon looking for offence. Now the lawyers and politicians the most offensive of the species are cashing in on the victim wannabes. 
Let’s just say I loved the sun and faced the rain, the clouds, and drop in temperature with some anxiety. I began to ache in joints with the change in barometric pressure. They call this the ‘flu season’ and I’ve a flu and Covid vaccination scheduled for tomorrow. I’m looking forward to desert heat the weeks vacation in November to raise my Vitamin D levels to survive the winter.
With the restrictions of Covid I was too much indoors. Dr Nocebo Fauci and others were threatening death to all. Repent! Repent! Everyone was depressed. I’ve been the complaints department for life. This last year the mental illness became infectious as mor and more were hurt by government mismanagement and corruption. We are now facing massive inflation and outrageous energy costs. All of my marginal patients are suffering as the middle class is squeezed.
I like my work. I serve doing virtual, making diagnosis suggesting treatment, making referrals and initiating investigations. I don’t feels the need to take on the most challenging or cure the incurable. I did years of that, pleased myself with exceptional outcomes but seeing no one cared if one person complained. I was popular i high school. Mediocrity is the key. I muddle on now. I liked my colleague who asked if he was going to retire answered he’d work as long as he can. I’m enjoying working. There’s no alternative for patients. There are such shortages. So many waited a year or two to find me and so many were orphaned when others retired. The healthcare system is broken.
I like making money to pay off the mortgage on my home. I could sell my sailboat and pay the mortgage off but as it is each year it lessens and my savings increase. I suspect if I took a few months or a year off I’d again find work that satisfied but why as now I’m happy doing what I’m doing taking this month ‘workcation’ in the south, muddling along.
I like that I’ll be cross dressing as a challenge. I did a week like this in Germany and Greece. And enjoyed the ‘carefree’ experience of au femme.
When I think of sex change I am uncertain as without the stress of living in Vancouver and Canada with world wars and threats and inflation I might just be satisfied to be in Mexico retired in shorts and t shirts or a sarong. I weary of the heavy clothes of winter. I like to no longer imitate the hollow men of boardrooms, wearing the greys so favoured by government and administration, I miss the playfulness of my youth in theatre and dance. I miss the music. I may just not be aging gracefully.
If Laura wasn’t working I’d travel with her and Madigan around North America with RV or Camper. I’m thinking that a trip with just the camper to central and South America would be an adventure. I’d thought to sail there but now imagine travel with just truck and camper and Vespa would be a great adventure. Maybe just with Madigan as Laura might find Central and South America to foreign. I think of friends who did it on motorcycle. I would lock up the big home. I can’t envision the truck and camper and motorcycle.
What to do till the Messiah comes?
I am so grateful for the life I have today. Such blessings. A miracle.
I printed some fifty pages of the books I’m working on and can see what is needed but I’m more focused on what needs to be done before I leave.
It’s been hunting season and most is on hold during that time. I’ve been out tenting and in a motel but without the camper and with back pain and less pressure to shoot big game I’ve done enough. I shot a dozen or so grouse. Last night Madigan and I enjoyed three of them I fried in butter with curry and cumin serving them on rice. A delicious treat. I’ve enjoyed barbecuing but in December May return to making more stews and soups. In Arizona staying in a hotel I hope to lose weight with less snacking at night. I’ll be doing more than I would here. 
I pray and meditate each day. God is all. I try to focus on the good. My mind is quick to catastrophize and often I have intrussive thoughts of old traumas, betrays, injustice, the manure that was needed for the flowers to bloom in my life today.
I love the peace of mind I know for times and love that I can use the tools to stop me sucking in the tit of despair. 
I wake with back ache and am much improved with the chiropractic treatment of Dr Ready yesterday but then think it’s metastatic invasive cancer and I’ll die because I’ve not had good health care while striving to provide the best. I miss George and am striving to trust Minos and Lydia. I don’t have anything wrong with me but lack of stretching and traumatic arthritis in my lumbar spine. I’m having wear and tear of old age. But I see everything as psychosomatic and feel the pain is the back stabbing and betray I took in relationships and medicine. But there it is, self pity. I love that the defective thinking of alcoholism describes alcohol, the demon of drink as ‘cunning, baffling, powerful’. Pain is that which you can say in no other way. Pain is anger turned inward. Yet sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
I believe the dessert with help my spine. I have applied to do tai chi when I come back I’m swimming each week. There is more I can do. I need to lose at east 20 pounds or more. I need a new couch
Covid worried me. I got TB as a fly in doctor serving the natives in the north. I had a year of medication and my hearing was affected. I have had so many episodes of bronchitis and pneumonia having smoke tobacco and cannabis for a decade in varying degrees. I know pneumonia is the old man’s friend but I want to live. I am enjoying life now and seeing the reward in the working in the south.
I loved this year going with Laura to Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Oxford, London and Paris. I loved the museums and shows. We had such wonder visiting the Scottish Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and National Gallery in London, the Louvre in Paris and especially the Musee ‘Orsay.
The summer was fine but the high light was tenting the Ace Hotel in Princeton with Laura hunting more grouse with Madigan meeting up with the Bustards.
I really enjoyed the symphony especially with Colonel Hadfield.
Life is good. God is good. My back has improved immensely with Dr. Ready. I walk a half hour or so 3 or 4 times a day with Madigan. Now Kelvin from Travco is installing my new awning with his son Brian.
My Ford F-350 is at Coastal Ford getting two new tires. It also needs a fog light replaced when they get the part this winter.
I do laundry make meals, have the luxury of a cleaning lady each month after several years without.
World politics continues concerning with Trudeau in Ottawa. I met Pierre Poilievre and he won the Conservative leadership.
Putin’s Russian invasion of Ukraine continues but the west has some wins and Taiwa has continues to resist invasion by Communist China who did invade Hong Kong and begin another reign of terror. There are riots in Iran and girls being murdered  by the regime. Inflation is world wide .
I try to avoid the news and media. I’ve been focusing on being present and thought blocking negativity by prayer and affirmation. 
I am happy and at times even joyful. 
I have this Sunday. I thought to go to St. Barnabus Anglican Church this week as I had last week but slept in. That was good  as Kelvin from Travco came and installed the awning. 
Madigan has found this very exciting. He’s been enjoying playing fetch and at times will even throw the ball in the air himself and chase it.
The sun came out and the clouds open to intermittent blue sky.
I’ve no real plans or demands and have the rest of this day before me. Life is good.
Thank you God. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit.



Jacks place

Kelvin of Travco and his son Brian

Grouse dinner

Leaves of autumn

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Gratitude

Thank you God for my Mom and Dad, my brother Ron, my Aunt Sally, the uncles and aunts and grandparents.  Thank you for my teachers in school, Viscount Alexander and Vincent Massey. Thank you for my principals and ministers and Sunday School teachers. Thank you for the YMCA teachers, Don McQuaig and his Leader’s Corp.  Thank you for the teachers at the Manitoba Theatre School Thank you for the teachers at Ken Mathew’s Dance Studio, Antonio, Maria and Clarkie, later Bill and Bobby Irvin and Doreen Key.  Thank you for the teachers at University of Winnipeg., Dr. Carl Ridd. Thank you for the teachers at University of Manitoba Medical School, Dr. Arnold Naimark. Thank you for the teachers in Surgery, Dr. Ross, the teachers in Community Medicine, Dr. Jack Hildes, and the teachers in Psychiatry, Dr. John White, Dr. Bebchuck, Dr. Nady el Guebaly, Maria Gomorri.  Thank you for the post graduate teachers in addiction psychiatry.  Thank you for my mentors. Dr. Bernie, Dr. Hank Olivier.  Dr. Art and Carroll, Dr. Willie Gutowski, Dr. Phillip Ney, Dr. Ray Baker, Dr. Graham, Dr. Hugh King. Thank you for my teachers in Christian Spirituality, Rev. John, Rev. Peter.  Dr. James Houston. There are so many more.  Thank you for my friends, especially Garth and Kirk, Robidoux,  Glen and Frank, , and Bill Mewhort, Tom and George and John Christensen. Thank you for my teachers of music, Jim Donahue. I’ve only listed one or two that represent what often were many more. 
Thank you for all the joy of exercise and physical activities.  Thank you for swimming and gymnastics and volleyball, and dance and Ju Jitsu and Tai Chi and Hatha Yoga.
Thank you for all the joy of study in arts and poetry and writing and sciences chemistry, biology, biochemistry, and mechanics.
Thank you for the joy of motion and vehicles, bicycles and cars and trucks and yachts and motorcycles and quads
Thank you for the joy of women in my life, Nina, Baiba, Maureen, Sherrie, Laura and many more ‘angels of mercy’.
Thank you for thee churches and concerts and symphony and theatre and ballet.
Thank you for the travels in North America , Europe, Africa, Asia.  
Thank you for my work as dishwasher, millwright’s helper, short order cook, childern’s drama teacher, actor, television dancer, physician, country gp, fly in doctor, minor surgeon, psychiatrist, addiction psychiatrist, head injury and trauma specialist.
Thank you for my training as a sailor, ships captain and navigator.  Thank you for fishing with my father and brother and mother, hunting with Dad and Ron and later Bill Mewhort.
Thank you for the dogs, 
Thank you God for all these blessings. Thank you for the life I have been given. Forgive me for my whining, complaining, lack of gratitude, unrealistic demands, entitlement, arrogance and lack of humility, my self centered ness.  
Thank you Jesus.  



Friday, October 21, 2022

Monsoon Season has begun

I have a weak fuse connection. It loosens and I lose my heat. I only have to push it in to fix it but that means getting out of bed after I’ve awoken to the chill. Twice last night.  Once last month.  It’s one of those things I mean to get to.  I am now sitting in a warming room knowing that it will get colder and this will be more of an issue in winter. I’m going to be heading south to Yuma and have my escape. I’m literally only able to face the winter, cold, rain and gloom, with the notion I’ll be south for a bit.  Soaking up the rays.  Desert heat healing my joints and lungs.
I am speaking with God. I’ve awoken another day. It’s here with Madigan and I begin the day.. I’ve some calls to make and the Truck has an apt with Ford and the old Mac Pro with Apple and my USB with Staples.  A light day.  I register that I’m to be swimming more and remiss. I have to return the Tai Chi Society phone call to be on the list of their next classes.
YHWH - I am
The universe is living being.  All is sacred.
I am in God and off God.  A being of energy. Dynamic. Spiritual.
I am to know God more.  My purpose is to know God more deeply, to have a greater relationship with God. Jesus Christ is God. God is three in one.  God is the multiverse. Father, son and Holy Spirit.  I am a spiritual being in this material existence. Material is slow energy.
What next. I go about the tasks of this day in love with God.  My heart is uplifted.  I can be kind with all because I too am all. God and I play hide and seek.  Peek a boo.  I am to know joy. Joy is my true state.  Bliss.  Thank you Jesus.
Smoke 


New MacBook Pro


The buddy

Fresh from Chatters Hair Stylist, with new fall sweater

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

New Mac

I’ve just bought a new 13 inch MacBook Pro. My last was 2019. Because I’m working it is a business expense. So far I can’t appreciate the new features as I’ve not used it much but I alrady like the ease in which I transfered the data from my old macbook to this with the ‘migration assistant’utility.  The interconnectivity with my other apple products is better. I’ll see. I really liked the Mac Book Pro though I do most of my writing on the iPad. 
I’m off to the Yuma and hope to make progress on the books I’m writing while away.
I felt how chillling this morning was but there wasn’t rain The sun has been so kind. 
Tonight’s meeting 
I take in the Ford F350 on Friday for tire rpair after the flat hunting.  
I’m book for my Covid and Flu vaccine on Monday.
I continue to do virtual psychiatry.  I was in both clinics this week and like that I’ll be working from home till next Monday.
I had back pay so was able to buy this mac and pay off the credit cards. I’m pleased that I’m r4eady to be off without concern of financial stress.  A month of work cation.
I’ve taken everything important to the storage and brought back another suitcase. I’m almost all packed though I do need to fold and arrange my one clothing suitcase.
I’m taking a tent and cot and sleeping back to camp on the 4 day drive down, maybe 2 or 3 nights.  
I am grateful for this life today.  Aches and pains but purpose and meaning and recreation.
I’m so enjoying Madigan.
The pictures of the family are a delight
I enjoy the kids on FB and the animals stories
We have new city officials after the elections.  There’s rason for hope.
I am living ODAAT as best I can , praying and meditating and thinking of God, the creator and Jesus the saviour.  I pray to be a channel of healing and for guidance and wisdom,
Thank you God. Thank you Jesus. 

Sunday, October 16, 2022

St. Barnabus Anglican Church , Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

It was good to be back in church. I have said I’m a ‘winter Christian’ because summer and fall I so commonly am out of the city enjoying nature as a Celtic Christian. Celtic Christians see Nature as the other celebration and lesson of God.  It was good to be in communion.  I left Madigan as I was running late and didn’t want to be encumbered by his distracting ‘busyness ‘ in.  He’s especially excited when the minister’s dog is there and he can play ‘disruptive dog’.  
I missed Emily but enjoyed Honorary Asst Priest , Venerable Mavis Brownlee and Rev. Martha Cameron.  I especially love Sathia’s music and realized how I’d missed it.  All in all it was a most rewarding experience, taking communion for the first time in months.  Covid certainly disrupted my schedules and I’m trying now that fall is here to restore restore those good social activities that make the week more spiritual.  I love the church and am thankful to have been able to be there today, praying in community and feeling the presence of God in people sharing fellowship and worship.  
Thank you Jesus, Lord and Saviour

Gratitude

I am not alone. I am here with God and my dog.  I am self aware. I am a spiritual being living in a material world.  I have family and friends but my primary allegiance is to a higher power I call Jesus.  Jesus Christ.  God within. God will come again. I play hide and seek with the presence of God. Like an archer I shoot for the bullseye but at best can get a grouping in the flow. To sin means to miss the mark.
I’m thankful for this life. I’m thankful for creation. I’m thankful for the colours and scents.  I wish that my mind was more continually serene but flashbacks, triggers, resentments fears play across the field independent of my desire. I don’t dwell on these so much. But their memory opens the unsealed wound of my life. My inner language declares my emotions, I know peace thankfully,  But I have an Iago and and an ear worm and I have all the human failings.  I lust, I know avarice and jealousy, I wallow in sloth, I have greed, I am human , a sinner. It seems a constant battle to remain true to you
You are my God, my friend, my guide, my saviour.  You are my love. I am thankful for you.
Now I’ll have coffee. I am so thankful for coffee. I’m thankful for Madigan. He rested his head on my head this morning in bed. It’s his way of letting me know he’s here with me and he’d like me to awake so we can go for a walk. We’ve done that. Now he is looking forward to sharing my Cliff protein bar.
It’s a free day .  I have church,
The difficulty with church is whether to go au femme or au drab.  I know I am welcome but au femme is a celebration. It’s dress up.  I used to love to wear suits and ties.  I miss the tie.  I miss the 30’s and 50’s though I really wasn’t going out till th 60’s and 70’s.  I saw a documentary of the opening of the Playboy club and enjoyed the men in dark suit and the women dressed in colourful elegant clothes with the bunnies waiting on them.
I just read intersecutionalism, more Frankfurt communism, all about ‘offensive’ and who are more offended.  Just paranoid revenge thinking in a different language.  
I’m seeking a higher power, a closer relationship with the substrate of existence. Yahweh.  I am that is who I am.  Being ness.  All is one.  Buber. I an It to I and You to I and thoug.
Let go and let god. Make me a channel of your peace.
I am here having meditated, sat in silence, prayed.  I have this day a head of me and there’s a virtual doctor’s support meeting. I have the new Arlo wireless Pro 4 to set up.  I’ve a desire to curl up fetal position and my bags are packed and I’m ready almost to have a few days travel and vacation with my dog. I’m thankful for that. It’s been a long time coming.
I am truly blessed. My hair was coloured yesterday. I saw the chiropracter, Today I’m feeling less pain. Ibuprofen is sufficient.  My colleague is turning 60.  My friend is on morphine.  I’m comfortable.  I don’t like the mortgage. I would have it paid but I have a place that is warm and convenient and yet I’m not mobile, Next year I’ll take the course and gain the independence,  I’ll rise to another challenge. Already I’m learning to drive better, backing up.  Little steps.
I’m thankful for the vehicles. I’m thankful for motion,. I’m thankful for stability and change. I’m thankful for my fingers. I’m thankful for the symphony. I’m thankful for music.  I’m thankful for mrrors and indoor plumbing and water and wifi.  I’m thankful for the new star link.  
Thank you god for all your blessings and your protection,

Thank you Jesus.









Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Thanksgiving Weekend,Princeton

Laura and I have a long history of Thanksgiving Weekend hunts,  Good times with dogs and terrific autumn weather.  She stays at the motel or cabin and I and the dog go hunting. Previous years I’ve shot bear and dear and turkey. This year I shot lots of grouse but the piece de resistance was Madigan fetching them for me.  He did one time bring it to me and proceed to chew on it in front of me.  I discouraged that taking the bird and quite frankly verbally abusing the mutt.
”I shot that bird. You wouldn’t have got it on your own. I share. You bring it to me, I take it and later I share.!”  He got the picture and loves praise. So after that one time we returned to his fetching the birds and dropping them at my feet.
I loved the Honda 420 quad .  Madigan and I rode all over the back woods. Of course I heard my guide friend Bill saying, “You’ve to stop moving if you are to get any big game Best to sit in ambush. “
My dad would say, you see more game  sitting or walking than you’ll ever see from a vehicle.” The trouble is we like riding about in the ATV and we do see grouse.
The ride out to Princeton picking up the trailer and ATV in Chilliwack, there was traffic slow down due to construction but we kept moving. The leaves were changing with lots of yellow and orange going through Manning Park.  I’d been concerned about parking with the trailer but there was plenty of street parking near Ace Motel. I’ve been staying there for years. There’s a new Korean family in charge replacing the last Korean owners since before Covid.  The rooms were immaculate and even elegant. Lovely bathroom, couch and comfortable bed. We loved that it was right in town.  Having unloaded what I didn’t want to leave in the truck we wandered about town going into the terrific Outdoors store. Their stock was depleted due to their suppliers having empty shelves.  I did get Laura a knife and enjoyed the visit. I’ve been stopping there for a couple of decade The owner and his wife are totally knowledgaable congenial and know the local area so well. Once I bought a lure and asked where to fish and sure enough they directed me to a stocked lake and I caught rainbow.
Laura came with me for the night hunt since we just had time to drive up the easy mountain main towing the trailer knowing I’d have to turn about somewhere. Madigan and I were pleased to get a grouse.  A good start. The trip back in the dark didn’t please Laura who is literally blind at night. She was glad to get back to our Motel.  I had to unload the pack and rifles each trip.  Not far though.
Pasha’s Pizza and Indian Food was the best, We had thelasagna and garlic bread take out. It was absolutely delicious with just a faint spicing of cumin plus the tradition Mediterranean spices. The cook and presumably owner is a beautiful delightful woman happy and friendly while working  serving customers.
I was up at 6 to be at the A&W for 7.  I learned later it opened at 6 am so was earlier the next couple of days.  I had planned to go out Henly where I’ve shot a lot of grouse in past years. When I took a cabin for Laura at the Princeton Castles or left the camper there this was my favourite hunting road.  The sun was well up when I unloaded the ATV fro the trailer and then loaded all the gear on . I have a short leash that clasps onto Madigan’s harness as he sits behind me. A couple of times he’s fallen off his seat into the foot well but the leash keeps him above the road, Each time I just lifted him back up with the harness. I could tell he was thankful.  He then for a while tried not to lean out toofar to peer around me.  
I shot more grouse that day and he’d fetch them. He was so proud and happy and we really do like hunting grouse together. It always reminds me of the very good times with Dad and my brother Ron hunting Prairie Chicken and Partridge on the prairies growing up.
The scenery in autumn is glorious. Sunny days, blue skies. Chilly in the evening but hot by late morning.  I explored everywhere I could go encountering a couple of other hunters on ATV’s or in trucks.  
Back in Princeton I took Laura to our favourite coffee shop by the bridge, Thomasina’s.  Laura had home made Peach Pie and I had the delicious meat pie. It was great to sit outside on the street and enjoy the ambience. A touch of Europe in Canada. 
I didn’t make it out for night hunt but instead had take out Steak and Prawns from Little Creek Grill. The food was incredible. We watched Operation Seawolf on the on demand in room big tv with Madigan happy to accept little bits of our dinners.  The cheese cake for desert was the best too.  We have take out so we can stay with Madigan but also we like it.  Cozy.  
Knowing A&W opened at 6, I was up at 5 in the dark loading the truck and first to get A&W sausage egger and hash browns with double double coffee and a thermos of more coffee.  Over the years we’ve become soft and enjoyed collecting A&W breakfast and coffee to eat as we drive into the woods for a day hunt. I drove up Jura again but this time headed all the way to Fry where I’d seen a place big enough to leave truck and trailer and have room to turn around. I imagined heading up Fry as the light came up enough to shoot. I had the ATV unloaded and gear loaded. I was just about to start it up when another ATV and small truck careened off Jura at high speed heading up Fry. So much for my slow quiet chugging along and plan to sit in ambush up the mountain.
I decided to head up Jura more exploring so far being the first that morning.  This turned out to be godly. I phoned Laura on my satellite phone and let her know my plan. I’d leave her messages on the cell phone or sat through out the day so she’d know approximately which logging road and how far I was. The logging roads have Km sign so knowing I’d taken a side road at 32 km on Jura narrowed the search if anything went wrong.  Younger I never concerned my self with such things, no one knowing where I was for a week or more at a tie,  but now I’m much cautious and simply don’t want to inconvenience search and rescue should I need help. I’m older and it’s becoming more apparent with all the aches and pains .
The blessing was meeting Anna and the meerkats in their SUV along with their friend Nicole on the Moosecamp road. What a joy to meet up. We’d talked of this weeks before but I’d not been able to find their camp then but this time it was just happenstance. Synchronicity. Luck - god acting anonymously.
 Anna rcognied me as I passed her on the logging road. What a riot to see this car load of kids grouse hunting. Kenda, Izac, Alex and the two little guys Billy and Bobby.  Izek had shot a deer and showed me his belt knife.  ‘We say they will get a big knife when they shoot big game’. Anna shared.   Alex showed me his leatherman.  Later Kendra would show me her mermaid bathing suit. Kids are funny. Bobby and Billy in there car seats looked like twins and were just wide eyed with curiosity.  
We separated and later I got lost in the back woods after turning around on this rock strewn sharply descending trail. The trouble is a trail can get treacherous real fast and you need a bit to turn around on these trails with drop off precipices.  I even had to back out of one horrible bit the next day but this day I eventually found a flat enough area to turn and then headed back up over great boulders standing and balancing and cursing myself for getting in this mess.  Having got out of that I was turned around and rode for an hour or more with the gas tank depleting int this endless area of great hunting.  I just don’t like not knowing where I am if only vaguely. I began marking the trail and places I’d been with the gas tank half empty and considering when to add my half tank spare, concerned that the gas had sat for a year. I got out the compass and began to go into navigation mode checking the gps and knowing I had the sat phone wondering if I’d have to phone Laura to get someone to give me advice on how to get out of the warren of roads.  I prayed . I pray a lot hunting. It’s a major mental activity, the constant praying and talking with Jesus.  An ongoing conversation including Madigan.
I experience a lot of the ‘flow’ and have a lot of gratitude out in the woods. Breathing the air is so wondrous with the smells of plant life, passing swamps, burn area, creeks. It’s an amazing eye and nose smorgasboard.  
I found my way out having got turned about coming off the rock slide trail.  I then had to drive to the end of a couple of long dead ends till I actually found my way back the main. It was a relief to find Moose camp again ,the little lake I’d passed and knew.  
I was glad for an outhouse at that point only I had put my cell phone into my back pocket to have with me along with the sat phone , only when I undid my trousers facing the hole the cell phone flipped out onto the floor but bounced against the toilet wall and slid down under the floor,.  I could touch it but couln’t get a hold on it. Every campers nightmare. I’ve had a life time of caution with outhouses fearing loosing knives or anything down the hole. There was a father and son hunting at the campsite with their truck when I pulled in. I checked my gear for any tool kicking myself for leaving the needle nosed pliers I’d just bought in the truck. They had a larger set of pliars which I tried but the hole in the floor was too narrow. There was simply no other way. I had to reach down in the shallow outhouse toilet through to the outside wall where the phone was wedged again. I was able to push it out and retrieve it. I did consider chopping off my hand after that but had Clorox wipes and decided after I’d cleaned phone and hands as much as I could I’d have a swim and wash then the Irish spring soap into the lake,. The trouble with quadding is dust.  The water was freezing but it was hot out and I went nude into the lake off the dilapidated dock.  A great refreshing sensation after soaping off with the Irish spring I felt clean again. 
Dressed and packing up my gear the Bustards En mass arrived. Nicole had had to go early but Devin was with them. The kids got into the canvas hot tub water with Kendra in her mermaid bathing suit.  Kevin talked hunting and guns and game with Devin and Me while Anna talked with the father and son. 
They’ d all camped here but a couple had been drunk and played loud music all night so they moved their camp further around the lake. The drunk girlfriend at 5 am was running along the rocky lakeshore near their camp and began screaming having broken her ankle. This required a major rescue action with a make shift stretcher to get her out to the canoe which they then pulled out with their quad.  What an amazing wee morning story. The bf was going to drive her to Merrit where they thought there was more medical resources that Princeton.
After that tale of horror with pictures Kevin showed me they took me to their camp two minutes away. I loved their great igloo shaped tent and the smaller tent for the boys the guide like set up of the area with Anna’s cooking area Madigan loved playing with the kids. The older kids would lead off and billy and Bobby would follow and madigan would go with the two little guys.  Great mark twain like adventures. Kevin and Anna and I were talking while these child adventures were happening. Next they were all on the ground.  Madigan loved it. It reminded me of my childhood growing up outdoors camping summers having the best time of my life. The kids didn’t wear shoes Kevin commenting on Kendra running on rocks and reminding me how we did the same not wearing shoes in the summer, hiking barefoot everywhere,  Incredile, What a great family. I liked Kevin showing me his sat message GPS device they could call out on in case of medical emergencies. They had Walky talkies. Too.  
He topped my tank up with gas saving me from unloading my gear to get at my spare, and even gave Madigan a little deer sausage meat.  Madigan was too excited there but ate it back at the motel.  I had Welch raisin cookies and gave them to the kids to share, Then I was back on the road.
I found my way back to Fry and loaded up and headed out. I wasn’t more than 10 km when I heard this racket ,stopped and found I had a flat.  
I put out my recently acquired hazard signs to the front and back and proceeded to get the equipment, Jack and tire iron needed to change the tire. I hadn’t changed a tire in 25 years. I had the excellent ford book but it took a while to find I needed to use my key to open the hole for inserting the pole to release the spare wheel under the the truck,  
I’d phoned Laura and left a message saying I had a flat and could she find out if there was a wilderness tow service in case I couldn’t do this. Fortunately it was 2 in the afternoon. Then the angels arrived. A truck stopped and asked if I needed help. I said I was having trouble releaseing the spare.  So this whole crew I’d later learn were from Langly parked their truck got out and took over the whole operation. I had laid out a tarp and been under to inspect the spare tire but this one fellow ,was right under and guided the release pole. Then with the spare out he managed to get the tether released with the help of another fellow who had brought out some grease to help loosen the tether bolt.  Another fellow was setting up the jack I had out while one of the girls, a laughing enthusiastic delight, was loosening the lug nuts saying how she loved this part.  The guys had the truck lifted on the jack. I’d blocked the tires already and then the difficult thing happened,  The old tire would not come off. Well that would have stymied me alone. The two guys just began kicking it and said it would be best if we had a long handled axe or ball peen hammer but it released with their major kicks. Then they put on the spare and the girl added the lug nuts.The truck was lowered.  Done.  Doing the faux pas I asked if they would accept money and they all laughed pleasantly shaking their heads.  Good samaritans They acted like a pit crew all working together like I was in a Trueman Show rally . I felt touched by grace and they were the best crew of angels a person could hope for out beyond the wire.
I continued on my journey and there was  another grouse I shot and madigan fetched. It was amazing how long the grouse waited for me given I was having a time finding shells with the zippers sticking on my jacket or the 20 guage shot gun strap tangling.  I actually only missed a couple on the weekend because they got bored and flew away. It was a great hunt seeing the Bustards, being rescued and getting a grouse.
We had Pasha’s Pizza that night and it was delicious,
I was thrashed. Shared the stories with Laura and showed her pictures of the kids and later the Langley crew,
In the morning I just drove up Copper Mountain with my A&W breakfast coffee and thermos in the dark, unloading the ATV and heading up as the sky turned orange with dawn,  I had hoped for a deer as I was there at the best time but instead I just mozied along in the ATV enjoying riding about as the clouds passed over and the sun appeared. I stopped often and sat watching the valleys for a half hour or so. I used to sit for hours but Madigan and I both enjoyed the ATV so back we went shooting another grouse. We even almost collided with a moose. All the deer I’d seen were does except a fast moving buck who ran across the road before I could even load my rifle the first day. Almost colliding with a great female moose they’re so big was an event.  
Then it was home and Thanksgiving Dinner. Billy’s Restaurant had a great turkey dinner and we enjoyed eating it watching more tv.  
The next day I bought an air pressure guage at Lordco rather than search the truck to find the one I am sure I had.  Loaded up we stopped at the Chrevron to top up the spare before heading down the mountain with our A&W breakfasts and coffee.
It all went so smoothly even parking the ATV and trailer in Chilliwack.  
It was great to get home and find every thing safe and undisturbed. I was glad to address a little work and get the mail and collect food for our dinnner.  I barbecued steaks and we had them with potatoes, butter and sour cream, peas and Hagen daz  ice cream for desert. Great meal. We watched Brad Pitt in Bullet Train and it was a fabulous romp.  
I was glad for bed and sleep aching all over with a wind burnt face.  Madigan was sad as I was seeing Laura off in her little SMART Car.  She has to work later this morning as do I.
I’ve 6 more grouse in the freezer and it was a god send of a Thanksgiving weekend. What a joy!  Thank you Jesus. Thank you God. Thank you for Ace Motel, the Ford and Honda, the hunting gear, Princeton Town, Pasha Pizza and Indian Food, Thomasina’s, Little Creek Grill, Lordco and Chevron, the Princeton Hunting Store, the Bustards and the Meerkats, the Langley Truck Rescue Crew and all the good times and grace.
Thank you.









































  

Thursday, October 6, 2022

Starlink, Autumn, Changes

I ordered Elon Musk’s Starlink and it arrived in a couple of weeks. I love that the dish is little and portable. It really was easy to set up. I was surprised climbing the ladder to put it on the roof that I realized I’d not climbed a ladder since before covid. A lot of times I have the ‘before covid’ thought.  Like my life was on hold. I certainly didn’t exercise as I might have.  I used to climb masts routinely but just climbing that ladder I realized I’d not been letting those muscles lapse,
I had some difficulty with setting up the user and pass word name and knowing ‘stinky’ was the temporary site. But really, easy. I liked that.  I really did.
Meanwhile the camera on Scotia bank isn’t allowing me to scan cheques.  The Apple TV wanted me to re set up my tv account with my phone but when I went to do that the IOS 16 necessary for that pairing isn’t yet out of the beta stage.  I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch tv until it is.  
I loved walking Madigan along the river.  I took some nice autumn pictures, posted them to FB and enjoyed the acclaim,
A Stellar’s Jay landed on the tree in front of my window and I was able to get a picture.  Common in the country but rare for me to see them here. The bird migrations have begun and I have a front row seat.
My hair dresses Sharin went home to Iran to see family and for weeks the riots have gone on there against the tyranny.  Chatters has arranged an alternative.
I’m off to Princeton hunting with Madigan and Laura.  I’ve red acrylic nails and frankly don’t like the thought of damaging them.  We’re staying in the Ace Motel so have a shower. I didn’t like the dirt and dust last time. I also didn’t like dealing with the heavy machinery.  I have aspirations of floating down the Nile on a barge with someone feeding me grapes. I’m not too excited by hunting. Yet I’d love venison stew and barbecued venison. I am looking forward to the grouse hunting to see Madigan retrieving the birds. He’s the best buddy and now a full fledged retriever and hunting dog.  I don’t like that there’s so much gear. I want to be ‘lighter’ and to ‘lighten up.’  We will enjoy being with Laura
I’m looking forward to a month au femme shorts, skirts,   skorts and sun dresses and t shirts Yuma. It s a dream like Greece.  I so like the ‘lightness of being’.  A couple of suitcase, clothes and computer and camera but no heavy equipment. I’ll be in the Mini not driving the truck as I do hunting.  I am really looking forward to that.  
I was touched by the heavy fear mongering and the constant alarmism of the covid push.  I’m glad to see that the doctors are suing the FDA for their demonizing invermectin. The demonizing of hydroxychloroquine and later Luvox was an abomination to clinicians. Government overreach and bullying.  Still I’ve mildly compromised lungs, 10 years of smoking, TB dx, annual bad flu’s for a decade and fear. I had what was likely Covid at the beginning and literally couldn’t breathe like my scuba diving accident when I ran out of air trying to dive under the reef at the last leg.  I’m so looking forward to the desert air. I’ve also had continual chronic lumbar back pain that thankfully has improved so much the last few months seeing Dr. Ready, the chiropracter every couple of weeks. I’m no longer fragile and experiencing constant sharp pain but am still sore.  I’m still cautious. I am hoping the desert air and resting in the sun by the pool soaking up Vit D will give me some relief. I’m looking forward to day trips to Mexico maybe eve n to the Sea of Cortez beach mostly for the Spanish language and to see if I want to come back next year. I am hoping my camper will be repaired and imagine going back in spring or summer,
I applied to the conference in Thailand but haven’t heard back.  I wanted to go to Berlin, Vienna and Venice and also Brazil and maybe Africa.  But I find myself wondering weather its safe au femme and would I rather go au drab. It’s such a transition. I’m ambivalent thinking of the future.
I enjoyed the men’s meeting last night.  
I’m enjoying working from home mostly.  I’m glad to be of service.  
Thank you Jesus for this day and all of these blessings. Thank you for watching over my family, madigan, his cousins, friends. Thank you for Laura. Thank you for my home and especially. Thank you for the balmy weather and the sunshine.









 

Sunday, October 2, 2022

FEmulate

I refer to myself today as bisexual.  It’s a life time assessment. I’m also transgender. I have cross dressed a lot in my life.  It began as a teen ager when I played female role in theatre and later in dance I’d dance female roles. I had no attraction for men and refused countless offers of Sex from older gay men until drunk and stoned I was raped. Busting my cherry was an extremely painful experience with internal tearing and what in retrospect I can only think was a sadist.  I had had the most exquiste wonderful sex with girls prior to that and all I thought of was girls. Nothing about men or penis’ made me horny. Breast did. Vaginas did.  Pretty faces and smooth skin. 
After being raped in that summer of drugs and poverty and my friendship with the older ‘queen’, I returned home to my parents and stopped drugs and returned to church and shut off that whole experience of betrayal and abuse.  I didn’t smoke dope again for a couple of years.  I didn’t even link the events to marijuania and alcohol.  I just focussed on success once again.  
I wanted to be a play wright.  I had trained in the theatre and was acting main stage and dancing on television.  I had the sexiest girlfriends, glamorous, athletic, voluptuous, carefree fun women who were all my desire. I was lustful and manly. I fucked women standing against walls. I’d lift them by their thighs and penetrate them tearing panties and knowing all manner of laughter and joy.  Sex was incredible. It was the reward of life.  I had orgasms and the girls had orgasms. I learned to lick my face off and enjoyed the taste and scent of women. I’ve watched bucks following doe in the woods licking them before they mount them in rut. I was like that.  
After my first divorce I became more religious and celibate and finally met another beautiful girl who was so sexual in our courtship but then we bought the house, I’d been working three jobs and she was so into her sick family and what the neighbours think and began to treat sex as ‘dirty’ and ‘beneath her’.  
Again drugs and alcohol entered .  There were no kids too. She didn’t want kids and I’d thought that was what marriage was about. She also never seemed to leave her mother who was ever in our lives and a thoroughly crazy lady with high drama and a need to be the centre of attention.  I would do everything to please and pleasure her but she increasingly disparaged all things masculine and prided herself on being a feminist mocking my achievement and always critical.  Her family were alcoholics and we drank wine and the marijuana had returned on vacation but a source appeared closer. Our friends smoked dope and drank wine and drugs and alcohol have strange effects.  She painted the house pink and wanted me to move to the basement though we shared a bed.  It was all in the last year.  I pointed out that I spent years between her legs and she had never done oral sex with me once. She said with all the authority of the Queen, “women don’t like oral sex.  Ladies don’t do it”.  
The trouble with that ‘we are not amused’ and her mother and sister and friends was that they were at variance with the zoological data, the sexual history, and I was teaching sexuality and discussing these matters with beautiful brilliant upper class colleagues and a range of patients having difficulty with an orgasm and marriage. I was the scientist and she treated men and me and sex as repugnant, all of a sudden, in the 8th year of our relationship as if she was having an affair or whatever.  I begged her to spend alone time with us but she insisted on arranging for her family or friends to be present. I begged her to come t o  that final conference with me but she’d rather spend the time with her mother.
Deep throat was playing at the movie theatre. She thought it was dirty.
I was in the hot tub with gorgeous young New York psychologist after a day of courses in Arizona.  
“I love deep throat,” she said.
“My wife tells me women don’t like oral sex’
“You know that’s not true. I love to please a man. I love the feel of his orgasm. I love the smell . I love the taste of his cum.  Don’t you love women that way too”
“Yes, I do, The secant of a woman and the taste of her is as exquisite as intercourse. I like the foreplay and the act alone.  My first wife was utterly womanly and our sex life was mutual in every way. My wife demands cunninglingus but doesn’t reciprocate and increasingly she’s become a dead fish in bed.”
“I don’t understand that. My boyfriend and I love sex like we like a good meal.  It’s so healthy and pleasurable. “
She had leaned closer and our bodies were touching and then our lips and in the hotel hot tub. I experienced ‘deep throat ‘ for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d had oral sex as a precursor to intercourse in previous relationships. I’d 69’d but this was different.  Explosive.  And there were all the taboos being broken and the red wine.  Red wine made me horny and rafter a couple of glasses all womens’ breasts seemed to grow and they all glowed. I hard on wine.
We missed the last two days of the conference spending them together in bed. I will never forget that deep throat though it became ‘normal’ in the following years,. I also won’t forget her sense of fun and pleasure.  She thanked me and we couldn’t stay in touch as friends simply because I returned and told my wife I’d not used a condom, that I needed to be checked for STD’s.  She was used to me wanting sex when I returned from being alone and thought this unusual. I was honest. I felt guilty for not using a condom more than the adultery though I did feel bad for breaking my vows though by that time I’d made so many sacrifices and accommodations to her and her family that I really was seriously wondering if separation wasn’t indicated as there was no children and she was depressed and her mother was depressed and her father and brother were always drunk.  I had experienced ‘deep throat’ and she was absolutely wrong about ‘women’ and I was really tired of her superiority and arrogance and was arrogant myself but admitted fault and prepared to accept she was the ‘victim’ and I was the ‘victimizer’ and just a higher level of her favourite game. It was the height of Marxist feminism and we’d had seven years of CBC condemning men collectively and now I was confirmed the ‘bad man’. She had never celebrated any of my successes but boy was she all for rolling in my defeat and putting the boots in.
I spoke to my prof who wad at the time going through a divorce. We were attending a workshop with Virginia Satire the famous marriage therapist, Later he’d invite me to his home alone with his family and we’d get drunk and smoke dope and I’d be fucked. I felt like a fly in a spider web.  The whole experience was pleasurable. I d shared my whole sexual history and marriage problems with him as he said he needed to know all this as my supervisor.  Now I was penetrated anally with lube on drugs, literally semi comatose and frankly immobile, like I’d had a nerve toxin.  I couldn’t move and didn’t complain except to weakly say. No , I don’t think this is right or some such verbal utterance while my body opened to him and accepted being bred.  

She ‘d left to be with her mother and he would come in an take me and meet with me and advise me.  I was a zombie at the time studying for my final exams.  I tried to break it off but I was smoking dope his cousin had as often as I could and drinking.  

She was innocent and wronged and angry.  I never knew when he appeared. It was definitely consensual though I felt like an employee boss’s relationships. I really liked the sex and the friendship. I begged him to stop the sex and that we could just be friends but he’d simply love fucking me. Frankly I liked being fucked. I was alone at the time, no friends and this homosexuality and the separation distanced me from all my normal connections. There was no one I could talk to except my stoned friend who had I’d let move into the basement as he had no where to go.  I was supporting him and serving as a fuck toy and had lost all my confidence and esteem. He liked me wearing his ex wife’s lingerie and frankly I felt better in the ‘constume’ and ‘role’.  I felt thoroughly divided I just wanted to finish my degree and leave. 

I did just that.  I went to a relationship with a friend and had access to wine and marijuana as I did my American medical exams and was offered a position at Stanford and another at Berkeley.  I lost everything in the divorce , never one to focus on money watching her suddenly take everything she could. There was even a painting from an esteemed friend given to me as a gift of friendship . Of course for me it had great sentimental value and reflected a decades of friendship but to her it was money and prestige so it was ‘hers’. Anything of financial value she took.  I didn’t care at the time. I was paying and people pleasing in this new relationship with a more sophisticated lady and lover and enjoying California. When I needed money I took a job in the north. 

I had crossed dressed a couple of times walking in the woods and masturbating imagining my self a girl masturbating.  I liked wearing a skirt. That was all. But I remembered the prof and wondered about myself when I was under a great deal of stress. The issue of having to make a decision about finances had triggered those episodes and the day of my exams in LA .  But 99% of the time I was happy in my masculine role with an amazingly beautiful woman who also had a strange relationship with her dominating mother.  She was another ‘princess’ too. But not a feminist and clearly loving being a woman.  I didn’t grow up with sisters and never learned how to argue with them or how vengeful they could be and took becoming a psychiatrist to understand passive aggression, psychopathy and proxy violence the norms of female dispute. 

I was alone again in the north. 

We argued because she didn’t like that I left and we argued and I didnt stay to play out the drama.  At the end of my northern stint with money in my pocket I came back to get my stuff and drive north again.  I had been offered a job in Virginia and was headed there but wanted to see the holograph exhibits in Vancouver. I saw the holograph as the closest representation of god on either and was fascinated with them.  I was still studying theology and spirituality and consider the ‘herb’ as ‘sacred’.  I had done LSD to know God. I was meditating and seeking experiences loving when I was in ‘the flow’.  I had that sense of synchronicity often.

Looking back and knowing that 6 weeks to 3 months is the withdrawal period for marijuana I wonder how often I was in PAWS, as smoking marijuania I was stable and in a steady state but when I went north to work I stopped marijuana and now again I stopped it and was restless irritable and discontent. It was n’t long before I had a new source and would have my routine of binge drinking and binge smoking with a few days of dope and weeks or months of only occasional drinks. The work hard play hard scenario. I had volunteered to help with the HIV service and was living in terror.  

Meanwhile I had dating the most sexually advanced women in the world.  Their skills and enthusiasm and joyful news were an eye opener. I spent months with a nurse who later told me she’d worked as an escort which didn’t surprise me given the amazing nights of sex with red wine. She had coke too and we tried that but not my thing. I learned later she had an addiction and was taking money from me to cover her costs. It explained her erratic behaviour. I didn’t like uppers except coffee and cigarettes while I did like wine and cannabis.  It was great being a man and sex was fantastic those years but I wanted marriage and family and a relationship with someone I could share spiritually

I worked. In the country I dated and had more incredible girlfriends with extraordinary sex. We were all young and athletic.  Being athletic, jogging, swimming, hiking, cycling, skiing were all the basis of great sex.  

I didn’t have Erectile Dysfunction till my 40’s.

My last marriage was great sexually. She was brilliant and beautiful and just the best of fun in the beginning. We both liked that each of us were drunks and stoners.  Our differences exploded over time and her mother was as insane , but now certifiable as my second wife’s mother, but as well the family was alcoholic and addicted but wealthy.  I actually thought that we’d move to the country among my friends who all had children and that my second wife’s problem was that her friends didn’t have children but were feminists and business women who priorized wealth. I thought with this wife I’d be in the midst of families and children and have a family. I even played the guitar  and sang “Our House.’  But trouble began when she failed her exams and continued to do more drugs and then began to spend her tine with her mother and I was months alone in the country as she studied to repeat her exams and I worked to support us .  I ‘d do this and people would think while he’s married a doctor so he should be happy but the doctors I married chose the poorest paid jobs and didn’t work much at all or were students while I worked three jobs and brought home  2/3 rd of the income and was fiscally responsible.  She’d had a daddy who bailed her out and a cocaine problem which again didn’t become apparent till later.  The fact is girls on cocaine are sex addicts. When I tried it I got ED so it was a stupid drug for me.  But the girls only had to lie back and be pleasured and on cocaine they were animals in the best of possible ways.

But alone girls in the neighbourhood would come to have sex and I said no. Beautiful young girls who I regret not having sex with. But I’d committed adultery and was not going down that path again.

It was in the country smoking dope and drinking wine alone in this big empty house with a dog and cat with her in the city with her mom that I began wearing skirts again and silky and satiny clothes. I loved the feel of women’s fabrics . As a young man like Hefner I’d lived at times with my robe , a writer, and now in the country I was the writer who wore comfortable closthing and wrote.  I liked the sensuousness of being female but my masturbatory fantasies were of being a man with females.

In the next years sailing I’d be a pirate and ships captain and at most wear a sarong and not have any questioning of my sexuality but struggling with what was the future of a childless marriage and a wife who was always depressed without drugs.  I was excited by sailing and exploring but she was forever getting in fight with other girls and had no friends.  My friends were the ones she used and in the end she only wanted to know my friends who did drugs and scorned my colleagues and gossiped negatively belligerently about my good friends, the ones who I knew who rarely drank and rarely smoked dope.

I d say I never wanted to see the dealers around and complain that while we were away she’d knowing let her house be used as a grow operation. I was working in addition at the time and she thought a bag of dope from the dealers for free was suffient reward. She got her coke.  I bought her all manner of lingerie and we began using toys. She got into coke again and her girlfriends had told me that was her thing younger and a major problems. She had inherited millions but we were living on my savings and I’d got work again in the north but as she had millions I said she could manage all the money anf she set up accounts for her self and took my money I made and was doing coke and I was smoking dope and drinking red wine and masturbating. Sometimes I was cross dressing.  I’d gone to a second hand store and had a cheer leader skirt and wore that and was writing.  

I’d a job lined up in Tenessee but she wouldn’t go and she wouldn’t get out of bed.  I prepared to set up a practice , I’d set up several successful practices on my own but when we built a clinic in the country she’d simply not worked .She did dope and stayed in bed and refused to work,. She got a job with government and didn’t work for years yet with goof nurses and supervision in the north she’d functioned.  I tried again. We invested my northern money in a clinic. I took out a $50,000 dollar loan because she said her millions were in investments and her corrupt lawyer backed her and she didn’t work. She did coke and got her hair done and didn’t show up for a waiting room of patients and referrals which dried up in a week. I organized a party for her to ‘open her practice’ and she bought gallons of wine and catered for a hundred or more but she didn’t send out invitations to the gps.  She didn’t work. A few of my colleagues arrived wondering at this elaborate set up with all the wine and food and no guests and her dealers and her drunken drug addicted friend who supplied her coke and became quickly loud and embarrassing.  

It was a nightmare.

I was suddenly seeing 10 people a day coming home to her stoned and depressed and watching her do more medically dangerous and shit show things as she was only happy and content on coke,  I am so thankful it was never my addiction or desire but I drank wine and smoked dope and smoking dope I didn’t think but played guitar and masturbated off fucked and thought it would all turn out,

I couldn’t go on.  I took to staying in motels with my dog because she was up all night on coke. I wasn’t thinking sexually . In survival mode I was all male and asexual. I thought she was trying to kill me as her mother had tried to kill her father. She was more insane than my patietns and it was a nightmare of nightmares. 

There was an unnecessary early death and I couldn’t say more. I’d been through that already previously putting work before family and now protected family.  I was seeing a psychiatrist who didn’t think I was drinking too much or smoking too much dope but was as concerned as I was about her cocaine use.  We arranged to send her to family to get her away from the dealers ….she’d had black dealers when I met her and I rather liked that because it was another source of marijuania but cocaine was a different matter. People with dying and losing everything,. She’d had a coke addict carpenter working on our boat a university friend who stole from the other boat owners in the marina who approached me and I fired him and asked her ‘what she was thinking’.  He was her source.  She always lied.  Lying was normal with her. But she was amazing too.  I loved her as I loved my wive’s but I also drank and smoked dope and was a people pleaser and intellectual and a bit crazy.  I was working with the craziest too so had a wife range of tolerance and experience.  It was a long way from the 50’s and none of the marriages I knew were ‘normal’ and I drank less than the doctors in my group and marijuana was everywhere in the upper echelons of my cohort. We smoked dope with doctors and lawyers and engineers.  We drank with the police and military.  It was friends in high plaees.

I cross dressed a week or two in that insaniety. The psychiatrist I saw said that he though I was using cross dressing as an anxiety reduction too.  It was an escape like alcohol and marijuana.

I couldn’t continue. She’d refused to get help and I was sure she was going to kill someone. I was covering for her practice anfd she refused to go to treatment but stayed with her uncle never telling him about her addictions or violence but blaming everything on me.  

I left. I walked out. She’d changed the code on the alarm and I’d arrived home from a day of work with her totally out of it.  I had her dealers casing the place and the house had been broken into several times in the previous years and now  I was increasingly anxious and it didn’t make any sense.  I wasn’t able to to sleep with her ranting all night pacing and not showing up for work.  

I just walked out,. I couldn’t find a hotel that took my dog and went to live with my biker friends who had a grow operation. I’d read the writing. Men are bad. Women are good.  The rich are right and the poor are wrong. She was angry that I initiated divorce proceedings.  I was smoking dope and drinking with these childhood friends who lived on the edge and were happy to have my money pay for their coke. It seemed that in a year everyone who’d been ‘good ole boys’ smoking dope had got into coke and I coulfn’t see it’s merit. I was older and staying up past midnight wasn’t attactive nor were the single young women in their 20’s who lived to party with dope.

I was working on a boat I’d bought with a view to living in the harbour but the guys kept saying I could restore it and I’d do a few hours a day but that was all. It wass a piece of junk and I figure that the $10,000 I gave them , they weren’t my friends, they’d become addicts and feral while I wass away.  One who went onto the hells angels took me aside and said that they did this. They took a person in an stole all their stuff and that I should get out while I could because he’d seen this done a few times and that he didn’t think it should be done for me.

A freind phoned and asked if I needed help. Another Christian. Said he had been given the message to call. I said yes. Bring a truck and pick me up.  He came with a station wagon and we loaded my valuables after I’d lost $30,000 and then with RRSP’s spent another $30,000 on lawyers who vouldn’t do anything because they said she was incredibly wealthy and was using the tactic of the wealthy ‘stalling’.  

I had one night with the bikers where I went out in the woods and work the witches outfit I’d worn out rocky horror pictures show in the moon light alone praying to get out of this mess.. My friend phoned shortly after that.

I ‘d decided that I couldn’t drink or smoke dope. I’d decided too I wanted to rebuild my life from when I’d left church.  I’d been with a Christian psychiatrist in Psychiatry and studied Bible at University in addition to medical school. I thought drinking and smoking dope were a dead end and I’d never do them again. I’d tried quitting smoking cigarettes, in the last weeks, 2 packs a day, smoking green garbage bag old the grow op shake and rolling drum tobacco .. I was a mess. I have a picture of the time . I looked like a pirate. I’d lost a front tooth and vanity hit me. I was fucked.  I returned to the church and cried in the pews remembering the innosvens of the days when I was president of amalgamated baptist youth groups.  I grieved the loss of the idealism I’d had as a poetry and the dreams I’d had as a dancer and entertainer and the dremasI had of serving as a medical doctor and all the service in the north.  I accepted charity from the church when the welfare woman began screaming at me that welfare wasn’t for doctors. My ex had movement all the money into her accounts and I’d cashed my RRSP’s and my friend wasn’t charging me rent but taking IOU’s.  I was getting food from the church and accepted I had to have income. Now welfare verbally abused me and kicked me out humiliating me before a room full of clients.  I was in a constant state of mhumiliation and withdrawing from cannabis and alcohol.  

It was spending long hours walking my dog in the woods. With no furniture in a trailer my friend ‘rented’ me on IOU’s , I’d pay him back in a couple of months I made chairs and table and he borrowed an old futon from a friend. I was praying  and meditating and writing .  

I had no sexual thoughts or feelings then. When I had a sexual urge for a woman I’d contain it and was celebrate another year of my life. I’d been celibate for a year or two as a yogi and now I was intent on being celibate for a year. I was praying and meditation and living very simply.

That’s when Graham learned I’d a private insurance policy I’d paid into for years and now I was getting thousand dollars a month disability and rich. I could pay rent and begin to pay back my debt. I sold some stuff and a thousand dollars to buy a car .  She continued to wrack up debts and play poor living ion a ten million dollar house in shaunghnassey with the multimillion dollar inheritance she’d received and she took my boat. When I learned of that I went from the completely passive failure to that’s not right. I had a Christian lawyer who was a saint because she didn’t feel what was done to me wads right. The Christian doctors totally supported me and didn’t accept the abuser.

I saw a lawyer who said I wads entitled to 5 million from the house as half that assess and he had a forensic accountant who would get me half of the millions she had in investments and bonds.  I said I only wanted my boat, It was only worth $60,000 but it had been my home and I’d worked on it for a decade and done my ships capatain’s papers and sailed it to Alaska and Mexico and wanted to sail again offshore.  The Christian Lawyer, my truthful saint, thought I was generous and that she wass unreasonable. But i got the boat after I put I took it off land with the help of AA friends, Christian’s  and doctors and aboriginals. I had joined AA when Bernie came to the trailer one night to take me too my first meeting.

Looking back at that hell of a year, I’m surprised how a year later clean and sober and back at work with a whole friendship of AA and Christian community how it was ever possible. I was living on my boat but my dog had died.  The dog we’d bought together for his companion she’d sold.  Last I heard she was living alone in that huge house, the mausoleum to her mother and working still. We’ve all grown so old

I had girlfriends in AA who were now sober and intimacy was incredible. I made friends and lovers and sailed solo across the Pacific through hurricanes in winter and had a glorious talented girlfriend but my parents became sick and the work became suffocating and I escaped home anxious again.  I was starting another practice. It was overwhelming stress and my mother was growing worse on my visits and I began dressing as a girl and dating a man . I had some experiences in the park late at night thinking that I couldn’t face any more chaos. I was living in an apartment and considering the options of homosexuality and transgender enjoying cross dressing and joining a cross dressing society. I was off Davie street. But I also had a friend and we continued to camp and date and I sailed and at sea would wear women’s clothes but stopped associating with the Davie street crowd though I’d made a close friend in Gay AA. We weren’t intimate but I dropped a lot of predjudiceds and learned a lot of the falsehoods I”d been fed these years.  

I’d been exorcised and spent a year or two in a ex gay movement and ‘purged’ my clothing and setting into years of fairly monogamous relationship which worked because we didn’t live together and she was who she was. Untreated al anon and isolative and dependent a bit, thoroughly involved with her family but while her children had problems the adults of her family where sane.  I thought that was an improvement .  She associated with negative people as had my ex but had enough positive relationships and when I went to AA or Church she was happy to come along. On her own she was Christian but isolative.  I was taking theology and going to AA and church and working and we were fine, good friends. She was loving and amazing.  Sexually she’d been one of a kind for the love and friendship.  

I’d begun to fantasize men when I masturbated. I didn’t know when I’d have ED and found that sex was work. I had to think about it even with viagra and that gave me terrible heart burn. I dreamed of lying back and being pleasured. I thought of all the women I’d ‘pleasured ‘ and all the ‘work’ I’d done and was resentful that there was no reciprocity. With the athletes of my youth we were on top and bottom and bucking and bronching but now it was more just ‘work’.  My back hurt.  

I wanted to be seduced.  I wanted to not be the person seeking sex and I had no tolerance for any delay or rejection.  I was thoroughly off the long history of women judging and picking and choosing and man as supplicant.

I’d gone through 2 years of a false accusation and lost $50,000 to a drug addicted psychopath who used a powerful insane beurocrat as her proxy weapon. The hateful pervert said ‘women don’t lie about sex’ and I watched the years of feminist abuse with women not standing up to these people while daily men were destroyed.  

Then we had a chauvinist pig take power and claim to be a feminist and the women celebrated this evil idiot.  I was increasingly fed up.

If you can’t beat em join them.

I was afraid to be around women. Man was the nigger of Canada to paraphrase Lennon who like so many of my youthful idols lost their shine as I grew older.  

I felt safe in the midst of gay and lesbians.  I like my AA and church friends,

At home I let comfortable in shifts. I took to wearing bras and panties when I could, I travelled ‘au femme’ and didn’t ‘pass’ but I was comfortable as ‘non binary’. I felt the church wass family and that there wasn’t a real place for the single who didn’t want to marry’.  

My partner became older and was over worked and tired.  I was over worked and tired. 

My dog and my life were threatened and the College and the Police didn’t nothing. I felt I couldn’t even protect mysel and that as a white man I was by the algorithm of the Marxist Canadian society , the aggressor.  Women and everyone else were the aggressed. Marxism began with the rich as bad and poor as good and Frankfurt school of  Marxism 
arbitrarily extended it’s dualism to any pair, with men , they were the aggressor and women the victim. Victims and Victimizers.  

I could leave Canada and go to a country when the Y gene is not a disease or I could give up the fight, I was so tired of defending against all the bullies of these last years. Or I could lie back and surrender. Rape is inevitable in Canada.  I felt less anxious dressed in a jean skirt and top. I felt more comfortable,

Covid and lockdowns came and I worked from home and gathered a wardrobe from Reitman’s an Walmart and began to feel less anxious and less pressured. In work we were expeeted to perfect but it was all without resources like being asked to do brain surgery under a 25 watt light bulb.

I was in love with the Book ‘Black like me’ younger and everything I learned cross dressed confirmed that women and men weren’t generalizable,  All the politival nonsense was unscientific and power politics.  I was now too old to be anything but marginalized and an outsider.

As an old man I could be a celibate, I’d be a monk and study and write and that’s still available to me 

I thought of retiring but I could use more money to pay off my home directly rather than from savings. I have had severe debilitating pain for years now and am abstinent from drugs and alcohol. I have this year been doing self care and becoming more function. Plane crashes and various other vehicle crashes took their toll but I do think that back pain is psychosomatic back stabbing pain. I pray and forgive and meditation and 12 step and yet keep having intrussive thoughts about the psychopathic betrayals rapes and bullying I’ve experienced all the while I was helping people who experienced this too.

I could die now. I’ve had a good life. Despite the flashbacks and intrussive thoughts and nightmares I’ve achieved my goals, had the best family and friends, greatest lovers, magnificent spiritual experiences, and really am grateful. I have to resist the catastrophising and poor me. I’m learning to live in the present and know God more deeply,

We are all women before God who is the first mover.

A man without a woman is not a man.

I enjoy being a man with my friend. I am tired of being the provider protector and constantly hearing women blaming men. I’m tired of doing all the ‘self work’ and being among people who don’t do any self work but spiritually and mentally masturbate.  I feel like I’m showering spiritually and I’m often among the unwashed .They all love that I’m nice and smell nice but they’re so arrogant and self satisfied doing the least and being so self centred.

Then I’m in a program that says I have to clean my side of the street so I do and feel alone.

I’m afraid to get a sex change because I feel I’d lose my friends but I’m not really sure I want a sex vhange except living in Canada or maybe its BC. If I moved to Texas, Calgary or Paris I’d feel fine being a man, I liked the Parisian women celebtating old men. I have many successful male friends who have left Canada and live in South America, africa or Asia where women don’t loath being women, don’t hate men, and celebrate older men.

I’m an outsider as a cross dresser and transgender.  I suspect i could make a new network of friends in the community though there are too many who have addictions in that world for my Joy. Indeed I wonder if my own transgender is a sex addiction.  

I could take testosterone or estrogen but I feel castrated in canada and finally after years of abuse by the authorities I think ‘identification with the aggressor’ is the way to go.  I think women in Canada would applaud en mass death of men until the next day they realized that men were good slaves and servants.  

The courts have stolen the children of men.  

The men in my practice physically raped by men and physically assaulted by women have been so sad,  I was beaten in my sleep by a coke addicted woman who broke into my apartment after i tried to break up with her. “No one leaves me she was screaming”.  I asked my patients with gashes all over their heads why they stayed with their physically abusive wife’s. “When I ‘m not their they abuse the children’.  I have seen men whose children have been killed by addicted mothers.

Admittedly I’m anxious.  I’ve been anxious a lot and I pray all day and go to meetings and share and cry.  I don’t know what to do next but I’ve done my duty as a man and served my time and now would like a vacation as a woman.  Women have been crossdressing since Chanel’s pants and Hillarie’s Pant Suits.  The whole femininity of the 30’s and 50’s and the best girl friend of the 60 have today ended with Kardasian and women angry at men while the elite men and women get away with murder and no one cares.

I found 80% of my colleagues are burnt out except the elite and those in Quebec who have been coasting for decades.  

Now I’m okay.  I’ll die soon,  I have less back pain and really 90% of the time I’m blessed. I’m so grateful. I am confused but I pray and know god is good all of the time.  This too shall pass and I’ll know a door opens as another closes,

Today I have love and friends and I have a wonderful dog who keeps me going for walks and eating meals.  We’re okay. I just know that if I had a choice to be an alien I’d probably put on a blue body and get on a space ship. But I wouldn’t want to leave all I love here either.  Ambivalence is a bitch.