Tribes. The notion of this has been coming up a lot lately, from a lot of different people. Sometimes I think that we (in general) spend more time reminiscing about our past tribes instead of creating our future ones. We spend time remembering how much fun we had on our “old stomping grounds” or how included and close we felt when we were with the “old gang” or we believe, somewhere in the back of our head, that we are superior to those currently attending our old high schools because we were there first and only WE know the lay of the land. Why? Why do we do this? I am certainly guilty of it myself. I remember all of my best friends going back through the years. I remember living across the street from E and spending every moment with her until we moved away. I was crushed and wanted to grab back on to that friendship when we moved back, but it was never the same. We had grown apart by then. I saw her again, many, man...