Blogging Through Transitions

Sitting here, blogging, in the customer lounge at the Pontiac dealership in Berlin, VT. There was a recall of the ignition-something-or-other in my car and here, as our last days in Vermont wind to a close, I'm running final errands and mulling the idea of certain samenesses that we carry now from place to place. We move with the little (but vital!) community that is our family to new places, new broader communities, but we also inhabit some communities online as well, and these follow us -- along with our e-mail addresses, our Web pages, our bloglines accounts, our Flickr galleries, our cell phone numbers, etc., etc. One of the things I've always found lovely about the Catholic Church is that no matter where you go in the world, you can attend a Mass, and even if the language is different, you know all the core elements being tapped, touched, experienced, are the same: transubstantiation transcends language, place and time and you are present at the same event all people in all places and of all times have been present at. Now I'm not at making any specific comparison to the way the Web creates so many contiguities across distance and time for us and the way God does ... but there's some vague sort of relationship tickling the back of my mind. I welcome others' thoughts on whether there's a real analogy hiding somewhere in this muddle...