We're All in the Boat

in lak' ech, a lak' en... i am you, you are me

M.A. Hastings Poetry

Glad Klassen

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The Maya Way

Jan 04, 2024

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Four pictures, all have boats in them. Number 1 is an ink and watercolor of a canoe pulled up on shore in the foreground with several boys swimming and diving off of the dock a short ways away. Picture two is of two blue canoes in the foreground at right angles to one another partially in the water and part on shore. The third is of three women standing among three red and orange kayaks, each holding their paddle like rods in their right hands. Fourth picture is of two women, each in life jackets sitting in their kayaks on the water with their paddles across the the kayaks in front of them. — Paintings of Maya boats by Lance Hastings. M.A. Hastings and friends enjoying kayaking in Niagara Falls, ON

We’re All in the Boat

Against the gale

in that sail

for swing to kick in

all became kin

and made for a shell of

a boat ride

To fare well in any tide

no matter in high or the low

What makes for best flow

is the how of your go

I am you

You are me

True to self

always be

Trusting that which cannot

be seen

But Is and Was and

will

Always Be

Always for you,

M.A. Hastings

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Glad Klassen

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The Maya Way

Artist, ethnographer, and teacher writing to share the secrets of Maya spirituality as the Maya of the Yucatan struggle to rescue their endangered culture from the effects of globalization and mass tourism.