Feeling Connected...
“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.” George Leonard (1923-2010); This is the year of the journey, the year where a single step may move mountains. The last year was difficult...sometimes one has to be fully broken into a million little pieces before put back together, fully isolated before being able to be with others. Sometimes being in the deepest place is the first step toward climbing back into your life. Connectedness is an unusual phenomenon..If you really think about it, the feeling of closeness, invisible ties binding together strangers who have become some sort of family can be an odd and unusual thing. We seek closeness with others, seek the feeling of a makeshift family, when one may (or may not) already have deep connections. Tonight I was watching a special on the Macaque monkey, which is slowly be