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It is easy to get wrapped up in your own little world, where things you think are important dominate your day. I've been Blogher obsessed. But I sat down to read the paper this morning and I'm taken back into the larger world.

This week there is sadness in Mumbai and across India where unbelievable amounts of rain caused the deaths of more than 900 people. In Southern Sudan, newly appointed Vice President John Garang died in a helicopter accident, adding risk to the fragile newly minted north/south peace in Sudan, a country that has seen over 2 million people die due to civil war and the effects of 20 years of war.

These stories are more real to me now than before I started blogging because I know and am friends with people in Sudan and Mumbai. They have ceased to be locations on a map, or names in a news report and have become homes of my friends.

Connection changes us. So send your beams to Sudan and Mumbai today.