When we establish human connections within the context of sharedexperience we create community wherever we go.

You usually can’t recall all the people you’ve shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you’ve shared your tears with.

We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions.

It was not something you could call friendship; it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that...