Community is about people communicating and bonding, pooling their strengths and talents to deliver amazing performance.
The spirit is captured by the hand-drawn signs that adorn the gym: "Let's be grateful that we are alive"; "Cheer up, Takata"; "Let's communicate and bond our hearts".
I know people who've had to hold back the tears while viewing that Chrome commercial — which portrays a father and daughter using Google+ and Chrome to communicate and bond after the implied death of their mother/wife.
Strayed's secret as an advice columnist was listening to what her own pain revealed about another's plight and then finding the language to communicate this bond.
Ultimately, Phillips adds, "It is not a question of Deaf or hearing, it is a situation where a loving, tight-knit family uses a beautiful, visual language to communicate and bond with each other".
If the story had ended there, it would have been enough: three people who have never met, and can barely communicate with one another, bonding like long-lost friends over a shared interest in a long-frustrated baseball team.
It got him talking about a scene in which the cast mimes the act of having dinner (sans tableware and food) and yet communicates the bond of that experience.
With a light brush on the shoulder, a pat, or a squeeze of the arm or hand, we can communicate a deeper bond than through speaking alone.
She points out that a loss of linguistic skill means a loss of our ability to think, communicate and form bonds with one another.
It is impossible to communicate, much less bond, with someone who can't or won't focus on you.
