William Hay, Writer

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.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Self Pity

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Bill Wilson described self pity as a ‘maudlin form of martyrdom’. There’s a wonderful expression which goes with this “Get down off the cro...

Monday, February 9, 2015

Journal, Feb. 9, 2015

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Thank you God for a wonderful sleep. I’m on my boat and enjoy the rocking motion in this harbour. I would have liked to have headed out fo...

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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Journal Feb 7, 2015

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I’ve slept on the boat enjoying the return of the mild weather. My electric heater has been sufficient to maintain cozy. I’m walking about i...

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Social Capital and Addiction

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According to the Oxford Dictionary, social capital refers to 'the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particul...

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Man flu

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I really am a little embarrassed by my reaction to a minor illness. Right now I've only got a stuffed up head after a few nights of poo...

Monday, February 2, 2015

Great Snowy Owl

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Thanks to Jason I learned he'd seen Great Snowy Owls in Ladner. Gilbert and I head down with the Nikon D5000 and Sigma 150 to 500 mm Tel...

All is Lost - the movie

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Robert Redford gets this solo sailor movie exactly right. Everything about his mannerism and behaviour is true. As a solo sailor I totally...

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haykind: 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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