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.