

The Traveling Native // Navajo Nation
On a Friday evening driving back from Window Rock, we stopped and parked our car after finding some roaming burros/donkeys in the middle of this field. During this time, we met Derrick Yazzi, who told us he stopped to talk to us because 'something inside him was curious why these people were on side of the road". A few jokes in and discussion of riding horses, we were invited to come out to Derrick's house the following day to hang out with him and his family. The next day wo


The Traveling Native// Planting The Seed
The Traveling Native is a project that came into fruition after weeks following a 7-day Vipassana retreat at Spriit Rock in Nothern CA. For those who may not be aware of a Vipassana retreat, it is also known as insight meditation influenced by Buddhist meditation. I attended this retreat as a gift to myself for my 30th birthday and honestly, did not realize what I got myself into until I left. It was one of those decisions that changed my life and I came back from it disconne