My Google home page threw up the following quotation from Virginia Woolf one day this week:

“I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.”

It makes me think hard about the times that I’ve been unable to respond quickly enough to an email message, or that I’ve not done a quick IM connect, or haven’t advantage of having a private chat during a teleseminar. Perhaps this struck me particularly because I’d spent some hours the previous weekend going through a set of LinkedIn groups I was in and getting in touch with people I’d not connected with for some time. Juicing my network, getting in touch, having the time to walk across the street and say, “hello.”