Visitors

I am amazed, and more than a little humbled, by the number of visitors to my blog. You may have noticed the counter on my sidebar. It doesn't tell me who has visited, but it tallies the numbers from various countries.

Isn't the internet awe inspiring? It allows us to communicate with all kinds of people from the entire world, just sitting in our own living rooms! It allows me to visit anywhere I want to go, even now, when it's all I can do to get myself up the road 20 miles to see a doctor or do a little shopping.

That counter went onto my blog last November 7th. Since that time, people from 82 different companies have come to call. Twenty or so came just once, and didn't leave a comment. But they came! Someone in the tiny island country of Maldive came to see what I had to say. Eleven people - or maybe the same person eleven times - from China came to visit! I didn't think people in China were even permitted to use the World Wide Web. But someone did. There were four visits from Fiji of all places, and two from an unknown country in the Asia/Pacific region. And I'm quite impressed and pleased that I've had at least ninety visitors from India and seventy from Portugal.

Of course, I never have a chance to "meet" most of these people. Most do not leave any comment when they come. I hope they do make use of the translator I have placed at the head of the sidebar. I always am happy when I see one of those if I visit their blogs. But whether or not I ever learn who they are, I am just so thrilled to think that I have touched them for a moment, and grateful that they have stopped by.

Do you have any idea how many have come to visit you?
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