What is your tribe?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:09 am
Hi there, I'm new.
I'm also at home sick, so I was thinking about tribes - my own, other peoples. I mean, where I grew up, what worldview I have, who shares it. I also have a raging fever, so sorry if I'm barely coherent.
The thing is, I growing up I didn't really have a tribe - we moved around a lot, broken home, boring same-old-story. I started out in Mississippi in the US and I've ended up in inner-western Sydney, Australia where I think I finally have a tribe of my own. As a kid, I chose my own tribe (metal, then punk, then God, then very vocal atheism).
I now find myself attracted to music with a strong sense of place - Frank in South London and Anglicana in general, the Dropkick Murphys (Boston), Springsteen (New Jersey) and so forth. I'm sort of fascinated with what it would be like to have lived that life, in those places that their music takes me.
So what's your tribe? Where are you from? Where do you identify with? What do you love about it? What is it that makes you go, yes, I'm one of 'them'?
Me, these days I'm an inner-western Sydney girl. I hang out in cafes and listen to eclectic music. I went back to law school at 40, which makes me sufficiently quirky for my neighborhood, I think. We're a gay-friendly place, we have lots of live music and restaurants. We have hipsters, but we have punks, too. The anarchist bookstore is round the corner, next to the Turkish place one one side and the Buddhist monastery on the other. In the summer we have wine at the pub, sitting outside to people watch and talk about deep things and listen to music. I wear Docs and jeans. My hair is purple. I seldom worry that I'm too old to be part of it, which I would if I lived in a more uptight place. I love it here and I've found my tribe, I'm never leaving.
You?
I'm also at home sick, so I was thinking about tribes - my own, other peoples. I mean, where I grew up, what worldview I have, who shares it. I also have a raging fever, so sorry if I'm barely coherent.
The thing is, I growing up I didn't really have a tribe - we moved around a lot, broken home, boring same-old-story. I started out in Mississippi in the US and I've ended up in inner-western Sydney, Australia where I think I finally have a tribe of my own. As a kid, I chose my own tribe (metal, then punk, then God, then very vocal atheism).
I now find myself attracted to music with a strong sense of place - Frank in South London and Anglicana in general, the Dropkick Murphys (Boston), Springsteen (New Jersey) and so forth. I'm sort of fascinated with what it would be like to have lived that life, in those places that their music takes me.
So what's your tribe? Where are you from? Where do you identify with? What do you love about it? What is it that makes you go, yes, I'm one of 'them'?
Me, these days I'm an inner-western Sydney girl. I hang out in cafes and listen to eclectic music. I went back to law school at 40, which makes me sufficiently quirky for my neighborhood, I think. We're a gay-friendly place, we have lots of live music and restaurants. We have hipsters, but we have punks, too. The anarchist bookstore is round the corner, next to the Turkish place one one side and the Buddhist monastery on the other. In the summer we have wine at the pub, sitting outside to people watch and talk about deep things and listen to music. I wear Docs and jeans. My hair is purple. I seldom worry that I'm too old to be part of it, which I would if I lived in a more uptight place. I love it here and I've found my tribe, I'm never leaving.
You?