This is Our Community

We are connected, you and I ...

I always say, to myself and others, that I would write this blog regardless if I was the only person reading it afterward. However, I do regularly check my pageviews (how many people are looking at my blog posts), and Blogger even tells me which countries those pageviews originate from. Somehow, my original words don't ring true because it definitely gives me more incentive and inspiration to write when I know that others are taking the time to read my blog. A very usual day for my blog would be 20-30 pageviews. I'm over-the-top excited about that, especially when it's not just my Canadian friends and family. On a regular basis, I now have triple or quadruple the pageviews from the U.S. compared to Canada -- THANK YOU, neighbours neighbors to the south!! Brazil, Malaysia, Germany, Belgium, Colombia ... how did you find "little old me"?? However, I'm eternally grateful that you did! My heart literally bursts to think that there are kindred spirits all over the globe that I am connected to, albeit by a tiny thread, aka "the internet". I love people -- it's in my DNA to connect, giving me purpose, meaning, and drive.

So ... what was up with yesterday?? 96 pageviews!! I fully understand that there are blogs out there getting thousands or millions of pageviews daily, but this is just me -- sitting in Ashcroft, B.C. -- writing from my heart. I'm not a big-time blogger, getting paid to write, with advertisements down the sidebars. I'm just pouring my heart, soul, and life onto the keyboard and am so appreciative that someone out there enjoys reading it.

I give you myself in words, and you receive them ... we both belong.

This is our community.

Have a ridiculously amazing Friday!!