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A Tight Web in Silicon Valley
If our tribe had an origin myth, it would begin with a place
called Dabney House at Caltech. Realistically, though, some of
us didn't meet until a decade after graduation. As people swarmed,
drifted, or fled to Silicon Valley, they met up with old friends,
and with friends of old friends, until they became a vast, and
ever-expanding, confederation. Over time, a more cohesive tribe
formed with ten adults (and now five children) who gathered en
masse for meals and conversation two or three times a week. Several
of us bought houses near each other and organized with part of
our tribe and members of the larger confederation for weekly role-playing
games or dessert groups, a bi-weekly quilting or craft group,
and random excursions to plays, movies, or whatever. We've shared
group vacations to Disneyland and Tahoe. We also draw each other
into adventures, like learning flying trapeze, cluster ballooning,
or something as simple as tie-dying (which should explain our
picture, in case anyone was wondering).
--Susan Mittmann
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