When I look around me, I feel blessed and grateful for everything I have, the friends who are in my life, for my daughter and husband, and for all the wonderful opportunities to travel, to experience life, and to witness beauty through incredible landscape.
This year I worked closely with a mentor who guided me to look deep into myself. Honestly, this was a tough road and I didn’t always like what I discovered.
It required a lot of work, discipline and efforts to change. But it also showed me that I have strength and courage I didn’t suspect. It helped me to find resources within myself, to acknowledge all the wonders around me in my everyday life. And most important I became more sensitive to my surroundings. I discovered that during the three days I was around Gallup, Window Rock and Canyon de Chelly. We went to few sacred sites, and I could feel the energy of the sites, which was an amazing experience.
When confronted to these sites, I can feel an immense respect for it, a deep peace in front of their beauty and all the past history; I felt a deep connection with this environment.
It’s really important to live each moment of our life as a gift, I’m sure you are famili
ar with Eleanor Roosevelt’s quote: “ Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift,that’s why we call it present!”
We tend too often to rush, and be anxious about the future or for things that have not yet happen. How many ‘precious moments’ in our life do we let pass by, and miss because we are not fully present in the instant?
How many people do I cross hiking, who are rushing towards the destination.
“Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.” We should savor each moment of our life. The best way to enjoy the most of it is to become aware of our surroundings, notice the animals we encounter, the elements we come across, wind/air, earth, fire, and water.
Water is an incredible natural element that can make us change our plans…when it’s pouring rain for instance!
During the three days I spent in the Navajo country, I never saw so much water! Yes for New Mexico and Arizona it’s pretty unusual. I was really amazed to witness that. All the Native Americans people I met consider this as a real blessing (which it is!), because water is the symbol of life.
In New Mexico and especially around Santa Fe (more specifically in Santa Clara and San Ildefonso’s Pueblos) you find many potteries that are decorated with ‘Avanyu’. This design is used often, because it symbolizes the importance of the water in this high desert altitude. ‘Avanyu’ is most of the time represented with its tongue as an arrow, which represent the lightning.
And lightning represent the power of nature, something we should never forget about!
Rain or Sun we should enjoy every day, because everyday is a journey!
