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.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

“Useful idiots”

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Lenin described the masses who did not see the evil end to his design and let their freedom be stolen inches by inch, ‘useful idiots’. They...

Friday, May 7, 2021

Spring birds

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I love looking out my work window on to forest. I love seeing the birds in the nearest evergreen. I love the migrations of birds in spring a...

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Spring and Beltane

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It is spring. The first of May has passed. Beltane. A celebration of the new shining one. Belanos, Spring God. The festivals of bonfires in ...

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Adulting

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I woke up feeling vaguely low. It’s been raining all week. The sun uplifts me. Work is by it’s nature depressing and anxiety provoking. The ...

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Sunday, Thank you

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Madigan’s river walk was lovely today. The rain earlier May havedeterred the visitors. The locals continue but the migrants who come by car ...

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

More Lockdowns

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I am disheartened by more lockdowns. The government has stolen the tax payers money and given it to cronies and foreign governments. Canadia...

Saturday, April 17, 2021

I’m like a flower

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As soon as the sun comes out I blossom. I’m like a flower. Madigan is hot with his fur coat searching out cool shade. Laura was siting in...

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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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