A home is more than just a place to receive mail. Sometimes, the place called home is beyond an available numerical address. Where we live does not depend on numbers on a Post Office box or names on a street sign.
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| You CAN Find Us! |
Our homes are our personal arrival at a place determined by many things; perhaps birth, circumstance, or choice.
I love homes on the Rez. Especially I find hogans fascinating. These cleverly designed round homes of the Navajo are wonderfully suited to the climatic extremes of the High Colorado Plateau. Warm in the winter, with a center wood stove radiating its friendly heat, and cool in the summer, especially when a little breeze floats gently through the open door.
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| Uninhabited Hogan Near Greasewood, AZ |
Though short on space, these homes are long on ingenuity, and well adapted to be a cozy base for an active, outdoor life of herding sheep or cattle, or raising corn. They also provide a dry protected shelter for weaving a rug or raising a family. New features have been added in modern times, though the traditional lifestyle is by no means extinct. A flat screen TV with remote control may be featured, and a bathroom perhaps added to the side is a welcome convenience. I always enjoy seeing hogans, inhabited or not. May they always be part of the landscape of the Rez.
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| A Blue Door is Inviting |
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| Male Hogan Used for Ceremonial Purposes |
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| Near Many Farms, AZ |
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| Sheltered Under a Shady Tree and in the Shadow of Black Mesa |
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| A Busy, Growing Family With Grandma Babysitting |
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| Electricity Available! |
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A New Roof Needed Here
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