As I left my home in the Arizona White Mountains to drive to Albuquerque to catch my plane, I decided to try the road that my GPS is always telling me is the faster way to go. It is a series of back roads that cut through the Zuni Nation and up across the Continental Divide before passing the Ice Cave and heading to the main highway (I-40).
As I made the turn towards the New Mexico border the temperatures dropped to 23 degrees but all around me the Upper Desert sky was a crisp blue and the red rocks of the desert appeared to be something you would see in CGI not in the reality of the world we live in today.
There were several thoughts that ran through my mind on that 4 hour drive. Not only the beauty of the upper dessert but an appreciation for the caretaking that the Zuni people give to the mother earth. The entire area of the Four Corners is mineral rich and the land could earn billions of dollars for the selling of the mineral rights alone. Around Arizona and New Mexico you can see places where the land is stripped by slowly tearing mountains down and processing the land to pull the minerals from the soil, leaving behind dead earth and scars upon the land. But the Zuni Nation is untouched by mans machines and chemicals allowing you to catch a glimpse of what the Americas must have looked like prior to the White Man’s quest for land and money.
As I continued the drive I caught glimpses of mountains created by volcanoes and sculpted by the sea and ice flows with snow creating the perfect piece of art, painted there as if by a dream. It was a four hour drive that passed as if but a single breath was taken in and then released and I had to turn onto the I-40 and drive back to the land of modern technology.
I love my ‘toys’ and I am an electronics geek constantly marveling and acquiring the latest and greatest gadgetry. But, as I drove through the Zuni’s land I was reminded that technology is but a momentary pleasure that gives me a false sense that I am ‘living’ but truly living is stopping the car and getting rid of all the man made gadgetry and walking into the mountains and stopping and creating with my own hands and imagination and feeling the breath flowing through the body and the wind touching the skin and truly feeling.
I believe that when I go back home I need to take the time to stop and hike through the Zuni nation and reconnect with what is important.
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