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, March 31, 2021

Spring

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I woke up in a really good mood. I’d had wonderful dreams of a heavenly place I just couldn’t quite remember. Madigan, my cockapoo puppy, wa...

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Flow

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I play peek a boo and hide and seek with you, God. I know the hound of heaven. I know practicing the presence. I channel and pray and medita...

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Monday, March 8, 2021

The Balance Sheet

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I wish that I could say my own internal balance sheet was based on matters of high character and achievement but it’s not. I’m a man of very...

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Dreams

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My dreams are mostly visual and emotional. I don’t seem to have olfactory dreams and only occasionally remember auditory dreams. There are c...

Soft Nightmares

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Obviously they’re bad dreams. But they’re not quite nightmares. Trapped and disturbing but not horrifying. I learned long ago to not get up...

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Morning Thursday

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Madigan walk was very pleasant today. I saw a buffle duck on the river. The cedar and fir was greener with spring. The air was fresh. Blue s...

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Sexy Birthday

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Another day. An arbitrary break in the year. The tedium of lockdown broken by an uncelebrated event of monumentous personal relevance. I nev...

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About Me

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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