'Connection'

Now, my story of yesterday about visitng Ms N. at the Women's Prison featured a key symbol - waving 'Goodbye'. You may not realise it but it also featured for me a key word - 'connection'. I realised that only later on myself as I was grappling with how to name what that symbol meant for me. Earlier in the day, I had named it to myself as being 'physical contact'. I had said that this was the closest physical contact we had had but that did not really capture it for me as I was not yearning for physical contact and I can see that physical contact is not at the essence of what I was trying to capture. Connection was it. We all need and yearn for basic connections in life. To be disconnected is a real loss and sadness for anyone that can lead to all sorts of personal strife and discomfort. Hence yesterday's symbol was so powerful.