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Sep. 5, 2005
My Counter
My husband was looking at my
blog the other day and asked, "Why do you have a counter on your
blog?" I thought about it. Some random site I had visited
had one and I copied? I thought about it some more?
Why? It's not like I'm trying to track visitors for advertising
purposes or anything. Is it just one more cool little toy?
When I was little, I distinctly remember spending a good deal of time
opening and closing the refrigerator. I wanted to know whether
the light went out when the door was closed. My parents told me
it did, but I'm the kind of person who really doesn't believe something
until I see it for myself. But no matter how quickly or
stealthily I opened the refrigerator door, the light was always
on. After some time, I discovered the little button in the bottom
left corner of the refrigerator that made the light turn on and
off. I was content in my knowldedge that, yes, the light did in
fact turn off when the door was shut.
It is kind of like that with this blog. I know some people visit
it. Some people leave comments. Every so often I get an
email. That's nice. It is nice to know someone out there
has found something in my ramblings interesting or helpful. But
most people pass through like a shadow. Do they read
anything? Or just look at the length of the post and the goofy
avatar and move on to the next random blog? What did they
think? Do they ever come back intentionally, or just the next
time the random button brings them here?
It is kind of like walking past someone's shadow. The little
ticker on my counter says they were here, but I know nothing about
them. But when they leave, if they have read anything at all,
they have taken a bit of me with them. They have glimpsed briefly
into my little world. Peering through this little window,
strangers have seen my children's pictures, elements of my lesson
planning, my philosophy of education and issues that seemed of interest
to me on that particular day. All I know of them is one more
little tick on my counter.
For anyone who actually follows my journaling entries, I will return to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow 
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