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Connections - what does this mean to you?

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We're just about an hour away from the posting of our FIRST CHALLENGE for MOC 12! As I posted a few days ago, our theme this year is about connections. This means different things to different people - I'm curious what this means to you?

I will confess that I tend to connect to "things" rather than people - I feel strong connections to music and quotes. I connect visually to abstract art and certain colors. And strangely, I have a very strong connection to silence - I find it incredibly peaceful and soothing.

Who or what forms your strongest connections?
 
Oh this is a great question, I feel like I am a bit all over the place with connections (this seems to be the theme of my life though!) There are some songs that connect with me immediately, or others that when I hear I am instantly taken back to a place/time - but definitely not the case with lots of songs. I also love quotes and verses. Other connections are to places & people of course are on the list (though I am not always a "people person" and crave solitude and quiet at times).
 
When I first saw the theme for this year's MOC - I felt a little sad as my first thought of the word "connections" is family and sadly there has been a rift in the family that still causes me pain.
I do connect to nature - flowers and birds as I am always taking photos of these and also I do love the sea.
 
The first thing I thought of when I read, "connections" was person to person. Maybe because I've been trying to increase my connections as well as deepen them this year. I also connect to music, books, and outdoors.

Looking forward to this season.
 
I guess I'll be exploring the meaning as we progress. Some thoughts are around family, but as I sit hit and enjoy a DVD of Collective Soul this New Year's Eve, music is also a strong connection.
 
I have different connections with different people. Like when my husband knows when I need that extra hug without saying a word. Non people connections are when song comes on and takes me back to a different time, being in the mountains brings me calm, a photo takes me back to other memories. Currently, the strongest connection that I have is to my granddaughter; we have had a major part in raising her since she was born and her and I have a strong connection emotionally and physically. Sometimes, my connections to things are hard to put into words. I am looking forward to exploring what my other connections may be.
 
My family forms my strongest connections. Right now, my Mama is at the end stages of cirrhosis and liver cancer. I'm spending large amounts of time with her, as well as other family members. Through that familial connection, I am also enjoying the story of life. Hearing my Mama relay stories about her life really speaks to my soul and is inspiring me to record as many of her stories as I can, and also spurs me on tell my own stories.

Second to family, I am greatly moved by music, beautiful things that I collect, and just creation in general.

Like others have stated, I'm looking forward to exploring this more as the month progresses.
 
Connections... the things that hold us together. For me it's God, family, friends and creation (including the creative process of scrapping).

It's also that little box on the wall that provides the internet and allows me to stay in touch with family and friends through my computer... and thereby partake in digi scrapping challenges too.

Love my connections.
 
I connect most with family and those things connected to family. Heirlooms, photos etc. as they are tied to my emotions and the sentimental side of me. I guess that is why I have been having issues purging some things - LOL!
 
Connections to me are family/friends both in the physical and digital space, my communities again both physically and digitally. Also for me connections mean building and nurturing new connections in a professional sense.

I guess growing up so much in the digital era of connections can be linked to this from Cath as well.
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It's also that little box on the wall that provides the internet and allows me to stay in touch with family and friends through my computer... and thereby partake in digi scrapping challenges too.
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I admit, first I got a bit intimidated with this theme. I thought about connecting to other people, and I have almost no friends & family. But then I thought that TLP will probably have many interpretations of connections during this month & I will learn new ways to think about it. I've been struggling a lot during 2023 with thoughts about loneliness and loss of personal connections, I'm sure this will be a great month for me - to explore, to think, and to reflect.
 
Our life is full of connections, starting with our family and the people in our lives, to dear objects that awaken certain memories and feelings, or music that touches a sensitive chord of our soul. We are connected by invisible threads to everything that surrounds us.
 
When you are going to think about is I think that I have connections with my husband, children and some good friends, you don't have to say a thing to see or hear what they think or feel. But also there is a connection with the place you live, nature, things that makes you happy (music, books, smells) and the place you call your home, and the pictures are the connections to my heart and brains, because I want to remember them always.
 
When I think of connections, the first thing that pops into my mind is connecting to people, but there are tons of other connections for me too, like books and music for sure.
 
Connecting to people (family and close friends), things (sentimental) and emotional connections... something for me that has an invisible thread to tie me to it.
 
I connect most strongly to people. Right now (for the past few decades) it has been my husband and children the most. I also have a couple of friends to whom I feel attached, and some coworkers I love to connect with.

But I'm attached to a few things . . . wait, I just switched from talking about connection to talking about attachment.

This is why I didn't answer this last night when I first saw it. It's complicated.

Right now I'm about to head out on a forest/lake walk with my husband. I haven't even started my first MOC page. It's not simple like in previous years. I connect with three of the elements very strongly and even the fourth is one I appreciate and enjoy. So I've been thinking . . . :think
 
Connections (family and friends) became a word more important to me since John passed away. I live 85 miles away from my nearest blood relatives, but John's family has taken me under their wing. In addition, my brother makes the trek out to visit once a month, to help me with chores around the house, to run errands with me. I am fortunate and plan on developing those connections along with finding new ones. Loneliness (and silence) is not fun.
 
I first thought of friends and community as a connection. Sure hope it lets me do some layouts for my scrapbooking, not just to make 31 layouts about friends. lol
 
My family has always been my biggest connection. My little 4 person family mostly. Even my friend connections seem to stem from my family - from being "friendly" with my kids friends parents.

Connections to me seem to be breaking - only because my kids are getting older. I'm finding that I don't see my friends that I made through my son as much any more because he's out of the house. I'm afraid of that happening soon when my daughter heads to college.

I guess to me, connections means now having to find my own. I started a Disney business in 2020 hoping to find Disney connections (and I did). I joined a book club this past fall to find reading connections (working on it). I'm a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution where I haven't been an active member, but it's in my pocket to find more connections there when I have the time.

I think creating connections with people gets harder as I get older. I'm exhausted a lot so I don't have the energy to go out. I think I'm making it a goal in 2024 to try to put myself out there a bit more IRL.

It's a good word to use for MOC as this is another place we can find connections to others!
 
My connections are spiritual, to people and places and themes that the Lord brings in and out of my life. Family, not so much, unless you count the family God creates for us, not necessarily our family of origin.
 
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