Human connections and human community can be so intriguing and powerful. They aren't the same for everyone, but I think I love how they are for me. I feel I connect quickly and that's just plain fun to get to know people, but it's beautiful that we can connect and relate. And you never know how it's going to happen. I can randomly meet someone in a restaurant and then become good friends. I can meet a friend of a friend, and have that person someone I miss when they're gone for just one weekend, when I've known them for a mere two or three weeks. I can meet someone at a Rilo Kiley concert and run into them the next week at a bar. And it's even cooler when they know the people I'm with from other contexts. I can go to a bluegrass concert and see a woman dancing, who I saw dancing at Old Fort Mountain Music the week before. It's awesome how connected we all are to each other. And without even knowing it. And it's so simple and complex. Pretty much everywhere I go I see at least one person that I recognize for one reason or another. Usually I have no idea why. I only assume it's something as simple as being behind them in line somewhere or looking over into their car on the interstate. And then we meet and we have no idea how our paths have crossed in the past or how they will cross in the future. In a week, a month, a year, someone could introduce to this guy I'm sitting next to in the coffee shop right now and we could become lifelong friends. Or I could think he's incredibly annoying. Either way, it's crazy how we have no idea how much we all are interconnected.