{"id":606,"date":"2012-03-24T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T15:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=606"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:46:19","slug":"home-and-where-the-heart-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Home, and Where the Heart Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Linda Burton posting from Phoenix, Arizona<\/em> &#8212; \u201cHome is your own private piece of heaven.\u201d These words, softly spoken, are one of many reflections in a video entitled \u201cHome: Native People in the Southwest, Part One\u201d which you can see at the Heard Museum, or online at this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heard.org\/videos\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.heard.org\/videos\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arizona is home to 22 tribal nations, and the Heard Museum has worked with 20 of them to produce short video-tours as an aid to connecting communities, and showcasing their distinct languages and traditions. In this 30 minute video by Dustinn Craig, they tell intimate stories of their connection to the land, and the meaning of home to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome is a really hard concept for me,\u201c says one. \u201cI can see it, I can taste it. But I need to create it \u2013 that\u2019s home for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreating home\u201d is the focus of another whose life was expressed in a love of the land. Frank Lloyd Wright began building Taliesin West in 1937 as a personal winter home, studio, and architectural campus. This desert masterpiece sits in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains in northeast Scottsdale, and a variety of guided tours allow you to experience first-hand his brilliant ability to integrate indoor and outdoor spaces. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklloydwright.org\/web\/Tours.html\">http:\/\/www.franklloydwright.org\/web\/Tours.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wright preached the beauty of native materials and created buildings to grow naturally from their surroundings. \u201cWhether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the \u2018atmosphere\u2019 of the things they live in, or with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As I travel the country over these next two years, listening to the voices and observing how people love and revere this land that is the United States, I will carry with me this thought, expressed in Craig\u2019s video by a Native soul, which has profound meaning for me:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an elder now. I have dreams that I have to complete. That\u2019s my home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Burton posting from Phoenix, Arizona &#8212; \u201cHome is your own private piece of heaven.\u201d These words, softly spoken, are one of many reflections in a video entitled \u201cHome: Native People in the Southwest, Part One\u201d which you can see at the Heard Museum, or online at this link: http:\/\/www.heard.org\/videos\/index.html Arizona is home to 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4586,64],"tags":[129,128,126,88,83,124,125,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15577,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/15577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}