Whakapapa: Perhaps the greatest question in the human search is: ‘Who am I?’ I find the question a helpful focus in meditation. At the time I wrote the psalm I was reading ‘William Everson, The Shaman’s Call, Interviews, Introduction, and Commentaries’ by Steven Herrmann. Herrmann spoke of ‘my own life, as a non-Christian’ (contrasted with William Everson’s life as a Catholic). The phrase ‘non-Christian’ interested me. I wondered if I was a non-Christian, but that didn’t ring true; however, nor did naming myself Christian. Out of this axis the psalm arose.