I remember that vacation I took out west through Colorado and Utah. The photo to the right was taken inside a port-a-potty in Four Corners area where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico come together. It’s a pretty desolate region. The area is on 2 Indian Reservations. There was no outside plumbing and only a few of the vendors took credit cards. Either the Native American tribe leaders were too proud to take government money, or maybe the government had an agreement that they would not give any grants in exchange for a “hands off” policy in tribal lands.
In any case it made for an interesting time in a geographic anomaly. And I’m not even sure they’ve really mapped out the correct positioning of the coordinates of the 4 corners boundary.
The photo is a reminder of how we as a society tend to look on the outside through a protective barrier. We see a vastness of sky and a desolate arid region below. Is this how we view Native Americans? Is this how we view the world?
Many times we sit back in the protective barrier afraid to explore and truly experience life.