Alysen and I watched Michael J Fox’s ABC special last night on hope and optimism. One thing that I found very interesting was his link between happiness (bliss) and connectedness. He suggested that in his experience traveling around the world searching for what made people, villages communities and countries happy and hopeful was whether or not they are connected with others around them.

One of the examples that hit home for me was an interview he did with a group of dairy farmers. He visited with them in the Hudson Valley of NY and discovered that in order to maximize their ability to survive, they had banded together as a group of dairy farmers and were living communally. This expanded not just to their lives, but to their business as well, having invested in their own bottling machine and advertising of their own “brand” of milk and produce.

Just more evidence that everyone around us are becoming more and more connected, through technology, through churches, through community organizations, and now to some degree out of necessity of survival.

I for one think this is the best development in our recent history, what do you think?