Who am I?

Sorry for the delay - my whole response got deleted yesterday so here is an abridged version today.I am a son, brother, friend, student, teacher, and many more things because of my roles within various communities of practice.  There are plenty of things that I am not because I do not belong to certain communities of practice.Wenger writes:"In practice, we know who we are by what is familiar, understandable, usable, negotiable;we know who we are not by what is foreign, opaque, unwieldy, unproductive."It is what we do and what we do not do that shape who we are; our participation and non-participation determine our identities.  The notion of identity as a nexus is the one with which I am most comfortable.  All the identities and trajectories we have in different settings all influence one another because they all affect us an individuals.  There is mutual exclusivity or pure fractioning possible.  Our identities as teachers are influenced by our identities as students because we can identify with what the students are experiencing.  Our identities as younger or older teachers are influenced by older or younger teachers through inter-generational interactions.  The conversations provide history and new insight.  In this course, our community of practice, all sorts of interactions between members help guide individual trajectories in different ways.