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, December 5, 2024

Foggy morning

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Last night I took a propane tank in my Mini to the Lougheed gas station to have it filled, It’s been cold these mornings. I’ve been anxious ...

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Latest life review

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I woke at 4 am today. I was having a good sleep and sweet dreams with visitations of family who have passed, I’d gone to bed early at 9 and...

Friday, November 29, 2024

Dark Morning

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It’s dark outside. I woke at 530 am, Darkness, Now it’s 730 am and there’s some light in the southern sky. I read social media and news. E...

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Sin and the 12 steps

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Richard Rohr, Franciscan monk, proposed that sin was the biblical word for what we call addiction today. Sin was used in archery to denote ...

Monday, November 25, 2024

Gratitude Monday

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Thank you for this day, for life, for Madison, for sobriety, for light, for heat, for scent, for sight, for feelings. Thank you for thermonu...

Sunday, November 24, 2024

How elderly can stay in their own place

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When people get older they are at risk of being institutionalized. Elderly can be forgetful but so can the young. However if an old person ...

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Burnaby after the Bomb Cyclone hits west coast

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I pulled in my awning last night. My home was shaking. Madigan was barking. I consider first an earth quake or someone hitting my home. The...

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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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