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When I send my words out into the void, I sometimes wonder who {if anyone} is on the other side of the screen. A knotted web of pandemonium, the internet is admittedly limited. It cannot be the source of all answers, the solace from all fears, nor the outlet for all happiness. 

It can never replace reality. 

However, within it lies a piece of someone’s reality, a snapshot of a million people’s consciousness. And through it, the world may very well be at our fingertips.

Within this endless string of code is access to Mr. President's morning speech in the click of a button, a dissertation on the mechanics of the Quantum Theory by Mr. Einstein himself, detailed step-by-step instructions on how to clean the stove, and live connection to your friend who lives in Prague. And through the blog, we can bounce off of one another, triggering the evolution of new ideas and initiating grand, or even small epiphanies. What an age we live in.

To those of you who have bravely {yes, bravely} endeavored to spill your thoughts onto the page of your blog for all the world to see, I thank you. You enlighten me. Constantly. And to those of you who take a moment from the mayhem of life to read what I have to say, I thank you as well.