ible ways, through silence or pauses, or vibrations like the feeling of blood coursing through our veins and the rhythm of our breath.

Connecting with people involves an exchange of information; information which can be exchanged in a thousand different ways, from the simple and remote to the complex and involved, from a handshake to a PhD dissertation, from a smile to a philosophical debate, from a clothing style to a political movement. Connection involves communicating something about yourself, communicating your observations of the world, or your observations about the other person, but without an exchange of information, in a total vacuum with zero communication, how can connection transpire?