I have been blogging since November, putting words out into the world. But where do they go? A friend showed me HiStats so I could track reader locations and my daughter got that set up and counting.
The results were not what I expected. First, I thought my friends to whom I had sent the link would see it, and I watched for their cities to show up on my tracking system. Interestingly, many did not appear. Even the people who said "Send me your link" were not looking.
Most of those who have been looking are people I've never met. All part of my mysterious web of connection. I imagine this as a shimmering gauzy silver fabric with wonderful properties. It's the kind of thing the ally gives the quester in a fairy tale, to help with the achievement of the three difficult tasks.
Each of us, I think, is part of a great silver net that resonates with many others. This resonance is helping my readers to find this blog.
They aren't just any readers. These net fellows find something of value in my words. Maybe just an idea, maybe a line or two. Some little phrase that comes at the right moment, vibrates strongly. Story is powerful.
Yesterday Lucy left a comment with one of my articles on Suite 101. Thanks and greetings, Lucy. I'll say it here, as Suite 101 does not encourage responding to reader comments.
Where are you, Lucy? Calgary? That's the city that has clocked by far the most readers. And I don't know a soul there.
I have travelled a bit, but neither in my travels nor in my life here in the balmy southwestern corner of Canada have I ever met anyone from Malaysia, Mauritius, New Haven, San Francisco, or Washington, DC. Yet people from all those places and more have looked at this blog. I know a couple of people in the UK, but not from London, Glasgow or Manchester. Still, people there have somehow found this blog.
I look at the Hi Stats map every morning. Magic. How does it happen? We must all belong to the same silver net. The little one, I mean. There's a really big net too. All of us are part of that one.
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