Clare Appavoo - Toronto, Ontario
A woman who could run the world, but knows better of it. Many hearts warm to Clare through her sense of humour and precocious love for all things fuscia. Clare travells around the world enjoying her position as the Canadian Sales Director for Coutts Library Services.
Yogic: Passion for Life; for Living, A Sense of Fairness.
Bob Peel - Oklahoma City, OK
So . . . some bio thoughts. Growing up as a stranger in a strange land, my grandparents raised me as a Swede in the U.S. The only boy to carry our family name. I’ve been shot, run over & blown up. Comatose & Resuscitated 3 times before I was 4 . . . including seeing the Angels. Broke my leg scoring the goal last time I played soccer, giving me time to read the complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
I grew up with my own soldering gun & all the parts I wanted, building a shortwave radio age 10 & talking to Japan from a cloud bounce. (as well as lot of other projects) I started working when I was 12. My first computer was an Atari 400, it only took basic . . . or game cartridges. I think it had 8 kb ram. My folks wanted me to be an electrical Engineer, I didn’t.
In Jr High I aced the aptitude tests , literally except English, but 2 yrs Latin helped me a lot with that ( the disadvantage of a trilingual home). At one time I could do 6 languages, now I wish I could do well with one J My first true love was the daughter of a French painter. In the 60’s I played folk music for Coffee Houses from here almost to California, done Custom Framing, Custom leather goods for the hippies.
I was a good Art Major before nursing, ‘The’ commercial artist for Grapevine Graphics. Painted signs for business’. Painted 50 ft. carpet rolls on the side of a building. Helped remodel a brothel. Built concrete storm cellars. Made the science cabinets & tables for the local high school. Med-Surg & GYN nurse for 25 yrs, as well as the 5 yrs nursing veterans. Mentored for counseling & to be a psychologist, while being the youngest member on their board of directors. Studied most religions from Baptist & Brahmanism to Shinto & Scientist. Calligraphy for the Book of the Dead of our local church. I have lived in a town of 200 because they counted the farms too, as well as OKC.
And of course my four marriages brought me 5 boys & 5 girls to raise, even if only 3 are biological. I tried to teach my children they can do anything. I learned sewing & crochet from my grandmother, but I started sewing when my 32 yr old was born and so many other things to numerous to mention . It has been a great life so far . . . and the best is yet to come. So you see when you say Bio, I wouldn’t know where to start.
Yogic: Incredible Insights, Reliable, A Path Finder
Dr. Peter Joseph Wodynski - British Columbia
Graduated from Queens’s University, Kingston, Ontario in 1967. Dr. Wodynski has graced the lives of many people and several generations of the same family. A well respected Doctor who practices in New Westminster, B.C. “He caught me when I fell as a teenager, he caught me when I made silly, naive life choices as an adult, through trials and tribulations of life he is a great mentor, he’s listened. Having caught my two daughters, who now are 19 and 13 his words of wisdoms are heard anew to the next generation.” Cilica
