A tribe knows when you arrive. You can not walk into a tribe and go unnoticed. Whether they know you or not, whether they like you or not, you will be greeted in one way or another. We were once a tribe, a family. Now, we live separate lives. Some of us are lucky enough to have close extended families, but many, too many, do not and are completely alone in this world (which forces allegiance to things that are less than good for us or the world). Walk down the street in any residential neighborhood in America. Fences and walls keep us separated. Look in any garage and you will all find a car, a lawnmower, and tools all of the same sort, yet how often are they all being used at the same time to require each home to have one of each. Why don’t we share these things? When a person moves to a new town does the town know it and say “Welcome, let us show you around and introduce you to everyone” and in this way the person finds where they fit in and belong? Unfortunately, not. Somewhere along the way, a long time ago when we were still a tribe, we had a disagreement or a misunderstanding and instead of resolving it and reaching a new understanding we went our separate ways and, now, with money, cars, cell phones and the internet we don’t need to know or get along with our neighbors. We can just drive somewhere else, call someone else or email someone else. With every passing year since that day when we couldn’t agree we have put less emphasis on getting along and understanding eachother and more emphasis on getting what we want. The sad thing is deep down we all want the same thing, but we will never get it without one another. We will never make enough money, have enough things, achieve enough goals to fill the void left from the loss of one another, the loss of belonging, the loss of the tribe.





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