Here's the main text of today's podcast:

"While I talk about both inclusion and connection, they are not the same.

"Inclusion is about the field of possibility, while connection is the fulfillment of the field of possibility.

"Think of a small room, just big enough for 12 people. Now, also picture a room big enough for 1200 people. So, the second room would be more inclusive because fewer would be excluded. But if the 12 really connected, they might have tighter bonds than if the 1200 just stood around. And the difference is important. In order for connection to occur, each of the people must be willing to be open with the others AND be willing to be changed by the connection.

"In any real connection, there is change! The edges of being become permeable, and points of connections arise and reach out and reach in.

"There are in a room of 12 connected people, more than just 12 people. In an inclusive but not connected room of 1200, there are only 1200. And nothing more, but over the interactions of the 1200 without connection, there ends up being less! Each person who is with others but doesn’t connect is lessened. That’s the pith for today. Lots there!

"And I point to Edward Hopper’s Night Owls for not connecting. Visual aid."