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I'd planned to post this about the interconnectedness of people in a fragmented society when poof my blog disappeared. In fact, my laylamorganwilde.com website disappeared and everything I've posted for the past two years in cyberspace vanished. My heart leapt into my throat and I experienced my life flashing before my eyes. I thought anything you post on the Internet stays for ever. Not so. The people who host your blog/website (in my case, Godaddy) can snatch your internet presence and hurl it into oblivion. I'd switched credit cards for payment and forgotten to notify them. Thankfully, the Godaddy IT gods were able to restore my account. A couple more days and it would have disappeared forever. For you astrology buffs, this is a primo example of Mercury in retrograde which dear hearts will be playing havoc with communication and all things techie for the next couple weeks.

For me, it was a test of my spiritual faith. After a brief freakout, I grappled with the possibility that every word, every image I've compiled at this blog would have no record of ever existing, and then a weird calmness descended. I got, really got how illusory life is. Of the thousands of people I passed on numerous walking escalators recently (see above) how many people did I connect with? Maybe a handful? Of the thousands of readers, how many do I connect with? Hopefully more than a handful. The holiday season is supposed to be a time of connection. This year, think about  how you can touch souls.

From my current state of blankness, I give you a little Buddha wisdom and humor via a shop in Sedona.