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.

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Life and gratitude

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I have a good life. My mind is still a problem. I see the half filled glass as half empty. I have shelter, heat, food, clothing, family , ...

Sunday, October 31, 2021

C Market Coffee

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I was inspired to get off the couch when Laura texted me that she, her sister and brother in law had gone for a Sunday drive to Squamish. M...

Morning Limbo

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I’m in limbo today. The aftermath of a full Halloween weekend with lots of exercise and activity. I thought of going to church but remain a...

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Samhain, All Saint’s Hallow Eve, Halloween

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Another season begun, Samhain the Celtic festival heralds the end of harvest season and beginning of winter. There was indeed frost on the ...

Friday, October 29, 2021

Monogamy

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In Africa and Asia the idealized ‘marriage’ was the ‘big man’ and the ‘many wives’ or ‘harem’. Celtic culture introduced the relatively ‘mo...

Hope and Despair

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“I hear a lot of despair,” I said. ‘There’s not a lot of hope out there. Where can a person find hope these days? He said. We were thankful...

Friday, October 22, 2021

New Day and God

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I woke this morning before the alarm. I reached out for the furry one whose presence comforts me and reassures me till contact causes him to...

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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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