Act Justly, Love Kindness, Walk Humbly

Or as the Navajo put it: “walk in beauty.”
With beauty before me
I walk,
With beauty behind me
I walk,
Beauty below and above.
I finish in beauty.

In 1855 one Jonathan Letherman, anthropologist and author of Sketch of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, Territory of New Mexico reported to the Smithsonian, “Navajo singing is but a succession of grunts and is anything but agreeable”.
Navajo spirituality views the universe as a dangerous place with good and evil elements which must be kept in balance, in harmony. This state of equilibrium is conveyed in the Navajo language as ‘Hozho’, a concept often translated as “Beauty.” To be “in Hozho” is to be at one with and a part of the world around you.

Small Blessings: There are a number of beautiful aphorisms in the Old Testament of the Bible, but for me only Micah 6:8 comes close to the glory of the Navajo verse above.
Another venture into Navajo country can be found in this piece of flash fiction (SciFi) set in the future:
https://crossingenres.com/alaric-and-grandmother-spider-3d9fa6e92672
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