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The Emerging Tribe of the D’Lrow Ecar
By Sarah Coffey
Our friends at the National Geographic Society recently encountered an emerging tribe known only as the D’Lrow Ecar. This nomadic people group distances the globe, aloft on the wings of mighty birds. Following the path of the birds, they are found inhabiting mostly warm climates. Interestingly, they are a tribe found on nearly all of the continents, simultaneously inhabiting numerous nations.
Trekking across deserted plains, as well as urban landscapes, they haul on their backs provisions needed for enduring eleven cycles of the moon. As soon as they cross the border into new territory, they disperse rapidly throughout the land. Never cowering beneath the weight of their sacks, they generously share in common all they own and freely share it with the natives they encounter.
Armed with small metal sabres, electric torches, and ancient esteemed writings, they fulfill vocations of value. They need not a compass or a map because they follow the leading of a Great Wind. For those who follow their path, they leave behind markings and messages on broadband highways.
Being that they venture into so many different territories, their pockets can be heard jingling with multihued, silhouette-casted coppers from disparate lands. In each dominion, they barter with the local inhabitants for the coinage of the land. Each new empire proves challenging in how to assimilate, acclimate, and assist.
After some time, they are introduced to the customs and given a daily standard by trailblazers who proceeded them. They apprehend some jargon and argots of the local vernacular, as well as proper gesticulations. Equipped with such assets, they venture into the marketplace to seek out vestiges of sustenance. Each region offers distinctive fare; tickling the tongue, yet sometimes alarming the bowels.
A common practice among the D’Lrow Ecar people is the exchange of sartorial properties. Though they traverse the earth with a satchel crammed full of various personal effects, they possess very few garments. With each new month comes the lackluster view of such attire. So, the people have developed a system of exchange which makes the old new again. Each offers up their humdrum garbs in exchange for a novel and vivacious costume.
In each empire, the D’Lrow Ecar seek to bring goodwill among the natives. Nothing is spared as they offer their hands, their feet, their minds and themselves; willing hearts and a ready spirit. Pioneers in the land show them where they can best offer their aid.
At times, they teach their native tongue, run around with wild broods of posterity, tend to the physical ills of the citizens, or announce virtuous tidings among the populace. They are known for the many appeals they make on behalf of the nationals, as well as their gleeful refrains, carried away by the breeze. Upon leaving each kingdom, they are haled for the delight and bliss they’ve left with the natives.
Unique to the D’Lrow Ecar tribe is the entity which binds them together as one. While every tribe is known to have a chief, very few chiefs are known personally by the tribespeople. The Chief of the D’Lrow Ecar knows each member of the tribe and in fact, hand-selected each to be a part of his entourage. He has mandated custom charges for each member. He’s bestowed upon them an important manual, which is considered to be of highest value to the tribespeople.
The manual contains specific instruction regarding the route they travel, as well as instruction for daily living, understanding and reconciling the past, and promises for the future. The Chief took great care be sure the manual included a letter of love; a message from His heart.
Over the course of the last decade, their number has monumentally increased from a few hundred to several thousand. Known as a tribe abstaining from traditional procreation, they are certainly known to multiply. In every place, they seek out willing hearts to join their ranks.
Thought of as itinerant drifters in each society, they don’t seek out a permanent home. Rather, they take consolation in the brevity of their temporary accommodation. I suppose in the coming years as the tribe propagates, we will hear more about them and the entire world will be heartened by the toil of this remarkable tribe of the D’Lrow Ecar, otherwise known as those journeying on the World Race!
