YOU, in your writing today, reminded me of you!! You have such a deep appreciation for what you described with the Navajo... the gravitational love and pull to the Earth.... I can remember your influence on my own life with the figurative and literal understanding of going barefoot and feeling... The land... God... You already are part of such a wonderful tribe of land lovers... And have encouraged many of us to be the same...
Beautiful, Elizabeth. Your journey through Navajo territory intersected with ours, both literally and figuratively. We will return and spend more time there. Two of our daughter's friends in Durango work for the Indian Health Service in Navajo Territory in New Mexico, and deal with all the issues you describe and more.
Beautifully written as always, Elizabeth! Next time you go, which I understand may be years… Though I hope not, I can’t strongly encourage you enough to go deeper into the Navajo nation to the Hopi nation that is located within the Navaho lands. There you will find villages called first second and third Mesa. First Mesa has been in existence as a village for hundreds of years.. You can do a guided tour and it is an original village. It is remarkable.
YOU, in your writing today, reminded me of you!! You have such a deep appreciation for what you described with the Navajo... the gravitational love and pull to the Earth.... I can remember your influence on my own life with the figurative and literal understanding of going barefoot and feeling... The land... God... You already are part of such a wonderful tribe of land lovers... And have encouraged many of us to be the same...
Beautiful, Elizabeth. Your journey through Navajo territory intersected with ours, both literally and figuratively. We will return and spend more time there. Two of our daughter's friends in Durango work for the Indian Health Service in Navajo Territory in New Mexico, and deal with all the issues you describe and more.
Beautifully written as always, Elizabeth! Next time you go, which I understand may be years… Though I hope not, I can’t strongly encourage you enough to go deeper into the Navajo nation to the Hopi nation that is located within the Navaho lands. There you will find villages called first second and third Mesa. First Mesa has been in existence as a village for hundreds of years.. You can do a guided tour and it is an original village. It is remarkable.
Sense of place is indeed incredibly important!
Taproots find water,
eventually, so we hope.
Inconvenient truths.