All posts by George Walters

George Walters is a Canadian columnist and author with more than forty years of writing experience. For over twenty years he has written a weekly column for Postmedia Network — Canada's largest newspaper chain — never missing a single week, publishing fifty-two stories a year. Combined with his work in Reader's Digest Community Voices, World News, Country Living, The Country Register, and farm and rural lifestyle magazines across Canada, he has published well over two thousand stories drawn from everyday life. He writes about farm work, fishing, old trucks, and the kind of people you only find in small towns — but just as likely he'll hand a voice to a weathered telephone pole, or turn his eye on something happening in the world today and tell you exactly what he thinks about it. No subject is off limits. If there's a story in it, George will find it. He has been called a philosopher of everyday life, a description that came up more than once during his television appearances over the years — and it's not hard to see why. His writing has a way of making the ordinary feel worth sitting with. He is the author of eleven books, including yearly short story collections and the Clay Moretti Files mystery series. Clay is a fifty-year-old private investigator who drives a 1967 Ford Galaxie, smokes cigars, and operates by a code the modern world gave up on a long time ago. The cases are present day. The man handling them is not. All titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon. Together, George and his wife Ruth have also created Elmer Finds His Way, the first in what he hopes will be a long series of children's books. Ruth did all the illustrations, as she has for every one of George's books — and beyond that she designed and painted the covers as well. Her work is woven into every page of everything he has published. A few words from readers: "I pulled up a kitchen chair and read your story three times." "You have a way of making a person homesick for a place they haven't been to." "Thank you for writing things that make old people and kids feel the same way at the same time." All my titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.ca here.

George Orwel, George Walters

A great writer like myself Ha ha, said this one time many years ago and if you really want to get in tune of what should be done in your life, then read on. Great name too, but hey that is just me.

George Orwell said in his prophetic novel 1984: “He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” Control the writing of history and you change the perception of where we come from. That, in turn, becomes the coordinate for where we are, and,when projected forward, it is the perceived starting point for where we need to go.  To much for ya, read it again slowly this time taking it all in.  True words have never been spoken.

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You Need Higher vitamin D levels to fight Cancer & Other Sickness

Well it’s that time of year again, where the sunshine is showing itself more each morning as it rises from the east.  The specialists say you should stay out of the sun, or cover up your skin when going out in it for any length of time.  In saying that I believe they are totally wrong.  In doing so you deprive yourself of what is needed from the sun which is Vitamin D.  Half hour a day is all one needs to stay healthy.  Yep just a half hour, soon as your  skin detects the sun it starts making vitamin D and spreads it through out your body.  If everyone got a half hour a day I really believe half or more of all our diseases today would be gone forever.  Oh I know, I hear so many saying well I sure can’t go out in the sun, I got sensitive skin, I burn fast, all kinds of excuses.  Well in my mind that is all they are, excuses.  If you start now early in the spring going out a bit each day, come summer your skin will be toughened up enough take the hot days which lay ahead.  Simple as that. But lets say just for the sake of argument if you do happen to get a touch to much sun and turn a bit red.  What to do is simply as soon as you come in take a bit of vinegar on a rag and wipe down the red part. Vinegar will turn that red to a nice tan and take out any burning feeling you might think you have.  Old remedies for a new era.  So, all I can tell ya, is, if it is a nice sunny day, get out there, your body is in need bad.  My opinion only.

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Does Fear Run Your Life?

You know with all that has been happening to me for the past few months health wise I would have to say if nothing else, it has opened my eyes to what is really happening here in this world today.   What would that be one would ask?  Well here it goes.

I honestly believe that today that the world is governed by Fear.  Fear of Governments, Fear of doctors, Fear about everything.  These Powers That Be, have gotten their way…. and you could say,  forced us humans, along with nature, to do their bidding, just by putting Fear into our minds.     This is wrong. What one has to do, I believe, is stand up for oneself, right or wrong, as in doing so,  the outcome will for most parts end up, being right.  If you honestly believe in what you are doing is right, chances are you are right and you are doing what you should be doing.  What one has to do, or should say, what I believe you should do, is not listen to his or her mind alone, you have to listen to body and mind together as a whole.  Then turn to the energy source that we really are.  I believe we are all made up of a powerful force of energy that is in us all, we are all one and if asked correctly, this energy will help us to over come pretty well all that ails us mentally and physically.  Thing is, today our minds have been corrupted into thinking that their way is the only way and that our inner feelings aren’t right.  Again, I believe this to be wrong.  I for myself have listened and went their way and others, in some health issues.  Reason for this is not in actuality for myself but for others, so that later on down the road, I will be able to physically show folks of what one can do if he or she takes back the reigns and goes about life using just their most inner thoughts and working together with this force that is in and around us, waiting to be simply asked.     Now don’t get this set in your mind on a religious way of looking on things as it isn’t. Myself I don’t believe in Religion, but I do at the utmost, respect your beliefs.    This force in us is totally different, it is there as it is in the trees, winds, sun, rain, animals, the list goes on.   So now today after putting myself through these biopsies, tests, you name it, for the sake of others, I now take back the reigns and not discounting others opinions, will now do what my body, mind and source suggest I should be doing.   Ok,  now some will ask.  How do I find that source?  Simple.  What you look for, is how you feel.  Think on what is bothering you, or who is bothering you,  then make a decision using what your conscious mind as to what it is saying to you, don’t worry right now if it is the right decision.  Now, as our elders have always told us.  Sleep on it, if you awaken, with a good feeling about your decision, no worry or upset feelings, stomach not growling or churning, well….. that is the right decision.  How simple is that.  Folks, you have to be in control, it’s your life,  don’t let others, governments, doctors, or who or what ever sway your mind.  I will be writing other articles on this subject as time goes by, so if interested, stay tuned, as I have only begun to bring to you, what I truly believe to be what life is all about.
And Remember, My Opinion Only

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Old Feller Asks If He Would Live to see 80?

Bit of humour sent to me a bit ago.

An old feller recently picked a new primary care doctor.
After two visits and exhaustive Lab tests, he said I was doing ‘fairly well’ for my age. (I just turned 65.)

A little concerned about that comment, I couldn’t resist asking him, ‘Do you think I’ll live to be 80?’

He asked, ‘Do you smoke tobacco, or drink beer or wine?’
‘Oh no,’ I replied.. ‘I’m not doing drugs, either!’
Then he asked, ‘Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?
‘I said, ‘Not much… my former doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!’
‘Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, sailing, hiking, or bicycling?’
‘No, I don’t,’ I said.
He asked, ‘Do you gamble or drive fast cars.
‘No,’ I said.
He looked at me and said,… ‘Then, why do you even give a dam?

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Newest Linux User

Thought I would let you in on our families newest Linux user.  Pretty high tech I know, but he has had good teachers, his Dad Mom and Uncle Karl.   Click Picture To Enlarge

Linux Rocks!!

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