Only Connect.

—E.M. Forster, Howards End

I s it possible that — in our cyber-disconnectedness — Forster’s words beckon us even more urgently than they did his 1910 audience? We can’t know. But we can open our arms and hearts to each other so we “Live in fragments no longer,” as Forster further wrote. I invite you to sign up for my newsletter so we can get and stay connected, in what sometimes seems an increasingly fragmented world.

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