Brood

A person's brood is collectively all the chidren one has raised or personally helped to raise either as a doula or simply a bystander, including birth-given and close relatives and extending to bashindas and others who have shared skinship. For a moderately social person, the brood may be very large and ramifying. The brood is an extended family of fellow travellers, who watch her feed, comment on her floats and remember her. One's brood is one half earned and the other half built, as the proverb says. Brood also extends to one's errand-runners or nakamas, who derive karma from doing things for their senseis.

