Wednesday Etymology Lesson: connection

Today’s word is one of the things that is most important to me in life.  From Latin, com- meaning “together” and nectere or necto/nexus meaning both, “I bind” and also, “that which binds or ties together.”

In a way, the word connection is a like a little magic spell, willing things together.  This word is very old and so is the force it represents.  The very atoms that make up our bodies are bound together by electromagnetism.  Everything is connected, and so are we.