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.

What The Powers That Be, Want You To Belive, And What Is The Truth, Are Two Different Things.

Myself,  I figure that the cures for all diseases, are right there in front of us in plants. I also figure that if our health system really cared for folks, instead of raking in huge profits, our doctors then could do what most of them really want to do.  If we brought our  minds back to the right way of thinking, we would then see that the Earth, is us, and what we do to the earth, we do to ourselves. Today though, folks minds have been swayed by religion, politicians, drug companies, banks, well…………… to many to name, and through my eyes they are the cause of all our problems.  It will get worse too, unless we start changing our ways.  But there is some hope as there is a growing movement here in Canada, portraying my way of thinking along with a few others, and I am hoping it keeps on progressing.  Folks are slowly taking off the blinders and opening their eyes.  They are slowly seeing, that all that has been pushed on them by these so called Powers That Be, isn’t the truth. They are slowly seeing, that the earth is all we have and all to look forward to.  They are slowly starting to see, that we have to be self efficient.  They are slowly starting to see that fear is our biggest problem, that our minds have been swayed into worrying about things that will never happen. They are slowly realizing, that you can have a good spiritual life without religion.  They are slowly seeing that fear has to be wiped from our minds. Oh……………… I guess you are getting my meaning, as I could go on here for hours.  All that I am trying to do, is to let folks know, that we have minds of our own, that we don’t be needing to do what ever the Powers That Be tell us all the time. We don’t have to believe in things that you don’t want to believe in.  Once you open your eyes to what  this earth has to offer, it by itself, well then all things will be made  possible. The Creator handed us this way of life, it is still there, it’s just that most folks have abandoned it.  My heaven, as some call it, is right here in front of me and I enjoy it each day to the fullest and my mind is clear.  My Opinion Only

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Food For Thought, Item

Had a feller the other day, 90 years old drop by, as he just loves my column and blog.  We got to talking about the education system.  The way he figures it, is that the Powers That Be today isn’t really interested in the education system at all  Well, should say they are, but only in certain ways.  He figures, they want you to learn, so you can get a job and pay tax, that’s a definite.  But they don’t want you to think, as if that happened, you would then know what is going on in this world of ours as most folks have blinders on.  You know, after giving that some thought, I am inclined to agree with him.  Food For Thought, you might say.

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Reminder Of Up Coming Event, Books By The Bay July 17/18/19, Next Weekend.

Just thought I would keep you folks informed of the upcoming event, Books By The Bay.  It will be held in Callander July 17 – 19.   My lovely wife and myself will be speaking for a half hour or so on July 17th, at 7:30 PM.  Hope to see you all there and make sure you say hello.  Looking forward to it.  Here is the link, it will take you to a place where everything is explained.    Run your mouse over the Books By The Bay Below, click on it and wolla!!!

Books By The Bay

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My Feelings On Some Things & A Good Old Time Plant Comes To The Rescue. Comfrey.

OK, for the past few days I have given you my outlook on a few things pertaining to life, and even got a bit into my life, how I do things, feel and see things.  Remember now, that these are my views on things and mine alone.  Some might not think like I do, and I suspect a lot of folks don’t, but something inside me the past few years has been pushing me to get my views on things out into the open.  I like to think it is a good thing, ways of helping folks, bringing things to light on different items.  Might say, a different outlook on life. Not that I am, telling, asking or trying to change your way of thinking, as I am not.  So … that’s that.

On another note, one item that comes to mind that folks can get a lot of help from is the weed, or some call a herb, is Comfrey.  Comfrey is one plant that I use a lot around our home here. I have used it to treat broken bones, swellings, torn ligaments, hernias, arthritis, wrinkles, blisters, stretch marks, cuts, bruises, well the list goes on and on. It is a very safe plant to use and unbelievably easy to make an ointment out of.  Here is how I make my ointment.  First I pick some real nice looking leaves from the plant, around fifteen so. Kind of depends on how big they are, mine is usually about medium in size.  I then lay them on the grass and wash them real good with a hose. I then shake them dry and lay them all out on the picnic table to dry in the sun.  One has to turn them a few times throughout two days, but after that you are in business.  I then crush them up dry, and put them in a masonry jar. Fill it just about full.  I then take some extra virgin olive oil and cover them totally.  Using a stick I push the oil down all around the leaves, until they are all soaked real good and  no bubbles left in the jar. I then take the ring and put a paper towel under it and screw it back on the jar.  Acts like a lid, but still allows it to breath.   Now I just sit it on the kitchen counter and in about three to six weeks, I have the greatest healing ointment you can get.  After about three to six weeks I strain it through some cheese cloth and set it in the medicine cabinet.  That’s it, you’re in business.  So there you go, a bit of old time wisdom once again, comes to the rescue and saves a fellow or gall all kinds of grief. OK, now is saying this, one should make sure your not allergic to the plant. Easy way is to crush up a fresh leaf and rub it on your wrist. If it doesn’t turn red you’re in business.  Just a small spot, about the size of a quarter will do it.  Also, I only use it externally.  Enjoy Summer!

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My THEORY About Fear & What It Has Done To Us Humans

I wrote an article on how bad I think Vaccinations are for you and some have asked.  What can we do about it? Well, that is a hard question to answer, but I feel I have the answer. Might not be what you want to hear, but here it is.   Take A Look.

Years ago throughout Canada and the USA lived the Indian or if you like, Native folks.  These folks lived off the land without any of the homes we have today and ate what every grew around them.  They were, in my eyes the healthiest of all the people in the world.   Then came the white man. The Natives helped them get over their sickness and from that day forward, it was all down hill for them.   Actually, they were almost wiped off the face of the earth.  I feel, the reasoning behind all that has been done on this earth,  can all be summed up with one word, “Fear.”  Fear is something that everyone  has in them, but Fear, to the Natives was almost unheard-of.  They had no fear of dying, or, all that was around them.  If something came up, they figured out what to do about it, corrected it, and went about their day.  The white man seen this, and it bothered them to no end, so they brought  White Man Made Religion into their lives.  Was a hard thing to do, but they did it eventually.  With religion they could change their thinking and make fear the prominent ingredient.  They told them, if you don’t worship our god, you would go to hell, or a place not so good, might say they put the fear of god in them.  The ones that, couldn’t be changed, fought for their way of life and …  most died trying.  What a shame.  For myself, there is no hell, I just shake my head when folks get to chattin’ about them things.  Just a waste of time and energy. The things, I brought on board throughout my being, is what I can see, smell, hear, feel, or taste. One other, I give some mind to, is Intuition, but that is all, “Nothing Else.”  Got to say, I have had a real nice life too, thus far.  I figure, I am in a group of around 25% in this world, but we are growing in numbers each day, as folks are taking the blinders off slowly, and taking a serious look at what is around them.

OK,  the Natives were hooked and fear was a dominate factor in their lives.  Now along came, yep your right,  Governments, I call them Powers That Be. The only way for them to succeed and grow,  was for them to keep this fear growing throughout us humans, and right up till today, they have done a good job at it too.   Then came banks, they would say they took fear away from folks, but in reality they added to it more than one can ever imagine.  Doesn’t take a lawyer to figure them out.     Pharmaceutical companies, health officials, you name it then came on board, and today I would say  that fear is in every ones mind for most their conscious day. Kind of like a drug, as once you start it on its way, it is almost impossible to stop it.    Fear is something not to take lightly. It  grows inside us and thrives the more we use it.  It has started wars, and killed more people than any other thing on this earth. It needs to grow and for years now it has.  But things are slowly changing as there is a few of us that know, and can see what it is doing, how it has changed folks thinking, and them few are slowly bringing it out into the open,  so folks can see what is happening.  The bottom  line is this.  If fear is left to carry on  and us humans keep feeding it, we will continue to get sick.  We will continue to let others run our life, and given time we humans, will perish.  Again, what a shame, as if we would have just taken a bit of the Natives way, into our life way back when, this world would probably be free of wars, sickness, cults, man made religion, well, to many to name. So … my advice to folks today is this,  steadily work on the fear inside of you, and when ever it shows its ugly head, laugh it right out of your mind, get rid of it, fast. My Opinion Only, As Usual.

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