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.

Friday, December 16, 2022

Advent, VSO, SV GIRI, Adventurer Camper, RV, Mexico

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Frost on the hedges this morning. Nice sleep. I actually got to bed at a reasonable time but also took some anti inflammatories and muscle...

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Christmas Nails with Laura

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Laura and I have done it again. Christmas nails. It’s been a ‘date’ for a while now. I take Laura to Professional Nails and we enjoy the c...

Vancouver Bach Choir, Handel’s Messiah, Orpheum

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Laura and I loved the Vancouver Bach Choir performing Handel’s Messiah at the Orpheum. Leslie Dala was the superb conductor, Melody Courage...

Friday, December 9, 2022

Friday Morning, Madigan, Laura, Cleaning Ladies, Slept In

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Laura is coming over. It’s been a month since we saw each other. The cleaning ladies are coming and it’s been a month since they were here. ...

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Sunday Morning

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This blog is an amalgam of many strains of thought. Central is the stream of consciousness journal. I share this because as a psychiatrist...

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Fear of Death/Love of Life

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Fear of death has been thought the greatest fear. Many variations of the theme exist like fear of dying, fear of pain, fear of powerlessnes...

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Gratitude

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Thank you God for this day. Thank you God for Madigan. Thank you for this new day. Thank you for family, friends, and colleagues. Thank you ...

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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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