Thursday, December 31, 2009 - m4w - 32 You had on a furry hat with ear flaps and you crashed into me at Wollman Rink today. You are a terrible but adorable skater. Happy New Year!
Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down.