Sittin' in the sun with our elders.
By Sky Vasquez I have been trying to write this post for...years. Well, maybe, just been sitting in my drafts for little over one year. My posts are like my artwork, I have to feel it to create it. But this week was the first week Portland was full of sunshine and I felt like it pulled me out of a deep, dark hole of gloomy clouds & rain which I thought I would never return. Okay, that is a little dramatic but yes, I am SO OVER winter. I thought I would talk about one thing I love most about my rez and one particular healthy habit my native elders taught me. Sitting in the sun. In the past three years, I truly learned to appreciate this about my rez. Most days, the sun is shining and the sky's are huge and blue. Early birds can always see a sunrise and everyone can see, what usually is, an amazing sunset over the Eastern Sierra Mountains. If you don't believe me, just follow anyone from Bishop on social media for a few months and you will see dozens and do
