What makes our peeps--our people--be that? Family relationships are usually part of it. So is sharing knowledge or experience. It has been said, "Your people tell you who you are." Sometimes we make decisions that force us to stop listening and seek a second opinion from another quarter.

Pulling up roots and moving away from a community also makes the tribe smaller for a time, especially of friends nearby. It takes years to build those relationships. My peeps for now:

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		Partner - Theologian, artist, vegetable farmer, great soul
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		Daughter - Musician, light bearer, old soul
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		Son - Engineer, thinker, deep one
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		Sister - Commercial interior designer, big sister
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		Brother - High-tech metalworker, quiet, getting acquianted
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		Sister - Not well known, old family mess
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		Late Brother - Spirit teacher, dream visitor, memory man
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		Friend - Background & artistic similarities, shared mentor then
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		Mentor Now - Colleague, encourager, opportunity giver, friend
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		Mentor Then - Rational material social cultural challenger
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		Mother - Dignity seeking reactionary organist & nice person
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		Father - Uptight creationist & friendly guy
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· · · The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening o to his dog voice, crow voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, o and never once mentioned forever · · ·           Mary Oliver, from One or Two Things
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