Facing East

Umik, A dear Inuit friend visited me from Paraguay and said “Erika, I am going to die soon- when I do, you must pray to me, I will work through you.” I couldn’t pray to him. Then I watched too many people I loved die from AIDS. I couldn’t pray to them. So I wrote Richard and asked him if I could come to Toronto and have him help me with this piece I was creating on death and prayer. I got a post card saying he had passed on. Using physical ‘prayers’, invoking the souls of three of Batdorf’s mentors, Richard Pochinko, Dr. Gari Rea Airth {Umik} and Lucy Jarvis who have passed on, we struggle to understand death in life.