I’ve been thinking a lot about connection lately. Since the release of the book and the launch of the website I’ve enjoyed meeting new people, both electronically and in person. I love that our website viewers and facebook fans come not only from cities across the U.S., but from four continents and several countries!
Sharing information, ideas, experiences, and perspectives was why we needed written language to begin with and why words fly through cyberspace today. Through writing we can know people distant in place and removed in history. When we’re lucky, the written word introduces us to like-minded souls, reassuring us that we are not alone in how we see the world.
A simple blog like this one can’t foster the same depth of connection as a work of art, but it’s a form that offers its own excitement. For a relatively small investment of time, reading or writing a blog is a chance to interact with a variety of people. It helps us find folks with whom we share something in common, including those whom we might not meet any other way. Those connections can even enable the building of communities through our reading and writing. And making a connection with another person is a gift, in whatever form it may occur.