Back home again
Back from a two week road trip. Less blogging than I thought I’d do as I was mostly out of range and trying just to turn off and spend time with the kids while we drove through New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada.
Highlights included three days working with Teresa Posakony, Tenneson Woolf and Roq Gareau doing an Art of Hosting with the Navajo Nation health promotion folks. Tenneson has some photos of our work and harvest at his flickr site. We have some amazing things cooking as a result of that work, including a community based peer support project outline for diabetes maagement, and some designs for what the next level of the Art of Hosting might be, Much thanks to Orlando Pichoe, Karen Sandoval and Chris Percy at the Navajo Nation for hosting us there and for Teresa, Tenn, Roq and Berkana Institute for inviting me along. Good mates, all.
From that event, in Gallup NM, we drove up to Windowrock, Canyon de Chelly, Monument Valley and Zion National Park (which gets more wow’s per mile than anywhere I’ve ever been) before returning home through the utter madhouse of Las Vegas on a long weekend with the NBA All Star game in town. Overwhelming impressions of Vegas were mostly line ups, being helped to get lost and flooded hotel rooms and overpriced food punctuated only by the beauty and grace of Cirque de Soleil’s show “O” which brought some of the serenity of the landscape back to mind.
Great trip but nice to be finally home, albeit for a short time.
Fabulous photos of the rocks and pictographs! One day I must see them. Thanks for sharing, Chris!
isn’t zion the most amazing thing? better than the grand canyon. “wow’ is exactly it.
and did you meet folks from sage hospital in ganado, by chance? that’s where i spent a couple months in 1996, opening space.
Nope, no one from there. We had Shiprock, Windowrock, Fruitland, Chinle, Fort Defiance, Alberquerque and Tuba City, but I think not Ganado.
mmm… hope the place is still there. i was there in troubled times. things seemed to turn up in a big way after that, as they developed new surgical capabilities. hope that success has continued.