Tag Archives: Blog Viewers

One Million Coming Up!!!

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One Millionth View Coming Up!!!!

I started this blog in March of 2013 and started posting a poem a day for NaPoWriMo for the month of April. Then in 2014 after I had posted a poem a day for NaPoWriMo, I continued to write a poem a day to prompts, a practice I’ve continued every day since and today, on July 10, 2021, I will hit my millionth view. Chances are when this happens, I will be riding back to St. Paul from Des Moines, where I came for a memorial and family reunion, so I likely won’t even realize when it happens and will never know who my millionth viewer is, but since my views now stand at 999,982, it is bound to happen.

At any rate, I want to thank all of you who have both viewed my blog and furnished me with the entertainment of viewing yours all these years. There are a few of you who have viewed me and been viewed by me from the very first and I want to thank you, especially, for being part of the reason why I kept going.

In that time, I have posted 8,365 blogs. Over 2,657 of them have been poems and another 996 have been daily posts of photos of flowers for Cee’s Flower of the Day blog which as far as I can tell, I have posted every day since October 18, 2018. The rest of the posts are additional stories, poems, essays and my own photography posted for various prompts and I thank those who faithfully publish these prompts every day or every week.

I had declared earlier that when I hit my millionth view, I would stop blogging, but recently I’ve established another blog in addition to my WordPress blog, so looks like retirement is not in my near future. I will, of course, continue with the WordPress blog as well.

Happy blogging. For now, I’ll continue to see you here as always. oxooxox Judy

Familiar Names and Faces

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                                                             Familiar Names and Faces

The extent of my doing something “scary or stressful” nowadays pretty much extends to public speaking, and it is pretty obvious that being surrounded by friends is a definite plus in this situation.  To have an audience devoid of friends probably indicates that one’s friends are not too interested in hearing what one says, and I’m afraid this wouldn’t be too encouraging, would it?  It would be like writing a blog and not recognizing one familiar name on one’s “Like” list or comments. Only the uninitiated dare stray there.

When I return to a blog I’ve written, it is reassuring not only that there are “Likes” and comments, but that in addition to a few new readers that the old familiars are listed there. Some of you have been reading my blog since I first started writing it, and I hope you realize how welcome your regular appearance is.  As blogging takes over my life, you give reassurance that this is not an activity practiced in vain.  Someone really is out there listening–their invisibility shattered by simply hitting the “Like” button or penning a comment.

Perhaps it is vanity that causes us to return here again and again to spill our thoughts across the screen, but I don’t think it is only that. I see us all as members of a vast worldwide audience who are simply taking our turn to try to bring what we can to this great internet stew.  Like the old “Stone Soup” story, each of us brings what we can to add to the brew and in doing so we create an incredible and rich dish to share with all!

Thanks for being my familiars.  I have been enriched by being yours as well.

 

The Prompt: Witness Protection–When you do something scary or stressful — bungee jumping, public speaking, etc. — do you prefer to be surrounded by friends or by strangers? Why?

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/witness-protection/