Naming the impalpable yet tangible connections we sometimes feel when we gather in a circle and meet eyes across the dance floor or praise resplendent art and admire the poetry of dedication or honor a graceful performance and fall in love with a song sung at the break of dawn or swoon over a smile and empathize with a tear or lose ourselves in scintillating conversation and collapse in laughter with a person you have just met over a supremely satisfying meal

...it’s the ties that bind.