No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky, --
No higher than the soul is high.
................--Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Renascense” (1917)
On July 20th I put up a post called “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, or How Green Was My Valley?” in which I showed you this map:
and these statistics from Blogger showing the 10 highest countries in terms of readership of this blog:
...Country.......Pageviews
United States..........1044
France......................167
Russia.......................161
United Kingdom.........92
Ukraine......................48
Germany....................38
Australia....................26
Poland.......................24
Turkey.......................20
China.........................17
Well, here it is almost a month later (August 15, 2013) and today’s map from Blogger looks a bit different:
which, being interpreted, means:
...Country.......Pageviews
United States.............920
Russia.......................273
United Kingdom........170
Germany.....................72
Poland.........................49
Australia.....................43
France.........................40
Latvia..........................23
China...........................21
Canada........................12
Specifically, Canada and Russia have become a little darker green and France has become a little lighter green, and Ukraine and Turkey in last month’s list have been replaced by Latvia and Canada in this month’s list.
What does all this mean, exactly?
I’ll tell you what it means, exactly.
People come, and people go, but the world keeps spinning on its axis.
Mrs. RWP went to see her chiropractor last week, and I always accompany her on her visits. I don’t want some 43-year-old dude touching her without monitoring the process. No, I don’t.
I’m kidding.
But only sort of.
Dr. K is a bright fellow and we always have the most scintillating conversations. He was saying something scintillating that included the word minutia and I interrupted him and said, “Didn’t she used to sing backup for Beyoncé?”
“Who?” he said.
“Minutia,” I replied.
Dr. K, sharp as a whip, shot back, “Yes, and she dated Bonjovi.”
Not Jon Bon Jovi, mind you. Bon Jovi. The whole band. As they say, click to enlarge.
That Dr. K is such a card. We all had a good laugh and the conversation continued.
That’s not important.
What’s important is the world keeps spinning (on its axis) and statistics change constantly (because with approximately 7.3 billion of us on this planet at the moment, how could they do otherwise?) but you and I, like Old Man River (7:35), we just keep rolling along.
If you don’t know who Samuel Ramey is, you really should look at that clip.
When I watched it, it struck me when Mr. Ramey reached the line, “He must know somethin’, but don’t say nothin’...” that many of you probably think that line applies to me. A little honest self-assessment is always good, so I reflected on my own feeble efforts to inform and entertain with this li’l ol’ blog o’ mine.
It’s true that some days I can’t think of much to say, but that has never kept me from saying it. Like today, for instance.
Still,
The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky, --
No higher than the soul is high.
................--Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Renascense” (1917)
