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.

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Trail and rules of the road

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I just returned from a trail walk. Only one uncivilized person. Perhaps ignorant is a better word. Barbarian. Bully. On a trail with two ...

Belonging

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It’s a sunday. I have been invited to a church picnic but don’t really feel I belong. That’s not a surprise since I haven’t been so often ...

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Paradise

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It’s another day in paradise. I’m intent on opening a channel to God. I’m doing my best to make conscious contact. I’m blessed to have s...

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Social Media

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I’ve a break between patients sand scanning social media. Facebook has chosen to send me all the clips of the Miss World Contest. I can onl...

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Sunshine Valley

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I woke at 6 am. I remembered fascinating dreams. In one I was part of a security detail of young volunteers for a museum. In another I was...

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Sunshine Valley

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Yesterday was a challenge. My alarm for 6 didn’t go off so I only awoke with my normal 7 am alarm. I had to get to Chilliwack to pick up my...

Friday, August 18, 2023

Chilliwack

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I miss the 6 am alarm I set. Probably it will go off at 6 pm. I was awoken by the 7 am alarm and got going slowly. .Quick meditation. Coff...

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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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