A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart’s. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back — it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I signed up for the Landmark Forum. I kinda knew it was going to happen. My boyfriend’s done it, his whole family’s done it, my boss has done it. I couldn’t help myself! The pitch was so good! The presenter was so passionate and relatable! I had my pen poised to sign on the dotted line before he even got to the “here’s-why-you-should-sign-up” conclusion of his 3-hour, anecdote-packed, interactive presentation.

What really got me was the 4-steps to a “break through” exercise. It went something like this:
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It’s well over two years since Twitter launched, and in that time the service has been adopted by more than two million users. Which is odd, really, since virtually no-one I speak with outside of the technology and blogging community has even heard of Twitter, or if they have they simply can’t understand what purpose it serves.

Twitter is one of the first and certainly the largest of what are known as “micro-blogging” or “micro-content” services. The premise of Twitter is extremely simple: in 140 characters or fewer, tell the world what you are doing right now. Not the world, in fact, but rather the people who choose to “follow” you on Twitter. If they do so, they receive updates (”tweets”), either on their cellphone or their computer, as you update your status. In theory the 140 characters constrain you to saying what’s really important and relevant, but in practice it’s often used for the boring, the trivial and the tragic.

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