Merging Tribes

It must have been like this long ago when the tribes gathered. People from distant places agreed to meet and further the common good.  As we sit early in the day in Vermont in preparation for the upcoming mother of all weddings we can reminisce about the tribes meeting in the old days.

Delegates from California, West Virginia, North Dakota, and other far flung locations have come together to merge the two families.  Histories will combine and so will the gene pools.  When people meet new ideas and technologies emerge.  The history of humanity has been alliances made and reformed.

When two hives of different bees are put together there is a process. One hive is separated from the other by a layer of newspaper.  By the time the bees eat through the news paper they are used to the smell and goings on of their new neighbors.

Fortunately there is a little different process for humans.  People share food, stories, and drinks, they dance, and share customs.  They come to understand one another.  In the Kadizzle tribe and the new tribe we are merging with there is a Jewish tradition.  The Commander is of Jewish Heritage and she married a goyem.  A goyem is a non Jew.  Kadizzle is a goy.  By Jewish custom the mother passes on the heritage, so for better or worse Kadizzle's children are technically Jewish.

Sam, Megan's new husband on Saturday is also from a mixed marriage of goy and Jewish heritage.  Sam's mother was Catholic, and Sam's father is purebred Jewish.

In respect to the Jewish wing of the new tribe Kadizzle helped erect the Chuppah.

The Chuppa symbolizes the new home of the couple. Megan and Sam will take their vows under the Chuppah.  Symbolically it is a statement welcoming people to their new life and home.  The sheet represents protection from above.  Kadizzle has had many blessings in his life, but when his daughters married good men, it was a joy hard to exceed.  Erin married Fran, a nice young man raised in the Catholic faith.  One can readily see that mixing and matching is a strong point of the Kadizzle Klan.  Someday we can hope that the people of the middle east can embrace the merging of tribes and the happiness we have here can spread everywhere.