From reflecting on my time with women as a kind of worship to sharing my favorite random acts of kindness, I have been soaking up tremendous amounts of positive vibrations from friends and followers of Grownup Navajo. Each of these moments have had a lasting effect on me and I have been having fun creating vlogs (video blogs) and uploading them to YouTube as a way to share them.
In the past month, I have held space with creative women and even created a fun hair tutorial for a new series I am doing on Instagram and Facebook – Tsiiyéeł Tuesdays. I hope to inspire followers to share their pictures of themselves wearing their hair in the traditional style of our people. As I explain in the video, the tsiiyeeł is the way Navajos are meant to care for our hair, it is how we respect the power of the thoughts found in these precious strands of our lives.
In this post, I want to share these videos with you and encourage you to subscribe to the Grownup Navajo YouTube channel, if you haven’t already.
good job! i tie up my own hair. its not perfect, some days better than others. i always remember an elderly navajo woman complimenting me, i was a little embarrassed that it was not neat & probably a little crooked- she put a hand on my arm and said something like, “nizhoni. i can see you tied it yourself. i would rather see it that way, it tells me you tried. and that’s the most important thing. it takes practice. even at my age, i still have a crooked day.” since then, i tie it as best as i can, and that’s good enough.
This is beautiful, ahe’hee for sharing this. It is so powerful to hear reminders of why self-reliance can be powerful too.