Gratitude

In all the years I have poked around the internet, I never felt "part of something" online until I started seriously blogging. I have met brilliant writers and engaged commenters and it feels very 4th house to me. My URL is my domain name, but it truly feels like a domain, like a home. When people visit me, they visit my abode. I've decorated it with purples that express some important part of me, and I've added lots of geeky widgets to help people access information easily and to enable them to communicate with me. Granted, most of those visitors who find me from Google stay for 20 seconds and then leave and never come back, but I've also got regular visitors -- some who poke around for a few minutes with one foot in the door, others who stop by to say hi by leaving a comment or meebo'ing me. And others go back home and tell their visitors about me, which feels so affirming, I have to tell you -- to have bloggers I respect send people my way. It really touches me at times, validates all the hard work I have been logging at the computer, all the effort I have put into my studies.

So I just want to say thank you to everyone, and as they say in the "rooms," Keep coming back.