By 3 p.m., there were people from Seattle, Boston, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania at the farm, members of the Open Group At Bedlam Farm who have talked to one another every day for months but never met. Their meeting was touching and powerful, a poignant thing to see the digital connections become very real and tangible. We arranged for some quiet hours of talking, photography, sketching at the farm before the Open House begins in earnest on Saturday, it was a very poignant and meaningful thing to see how much these people mean to one another, and how much the farm, the blog, Maria’s work and the animals means to them. I am somewhat overwhelmed by it.