If you're here, chances are you are probably already a part of a "virtual village." There was a time when most people were a part of a physical village, or a neighborhood, or perhaps an extended family that lived and farmed and worked together and helped each other.
Today, for all the ways we've found to connect, to communicate, we are more isolated than we were 50 years ago. In many ways, I suspect that our desire to communicate in new ways is born of losing the village, leaving the farm, and moving from the neighborhoods where people sat on porches and children played on lazy streets. Our desire, rather our need--to know each other, and to be known--continues to express itself.
A person may belong to many such virtual villages, whether because of school or work, or maybe because of a shared passion. By being here, you are a part of a loosely bound group of people, some who know each other well, some who have yet to meet in any sense of the word, whose lives intermingle on some level.
Welcome back to the village.
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