You never know when you might need that connection.
You give talks at conferences, and someone in the audience needs you they find that connection.
"He needs to make that connection, eyeball to eyeball".
Hopefully America can see how ignoring hate allowed Houstonians to help each other in a time of need, and that connections across party, racial and class-based lines are only beneficial to our lives.
An ivory carving is thousands of miles removed from the sad carcass of a poached elephant, but we need to make that connection.
China's sense of today and its view of tomorrow are both rooted in the past--and we need to understand that connection, says China scholar Charles Horner.
But, of course, you need to establish that connection.
Whether my "medical theory" is true or not, I needed to make that connection for myself, and theatre helped me get there.
Now Canadian startup Pocketop has taken a new approach, creating a single keyboard that works on several different PDA models without needing that physical connection at all.
As a personal example, she recounts publicly posting her grandmother's obituary on Facebook and getting thousands of "likes" and hundreds of comments: "It made me feel connected to people in a time when I really needed that connection".
