Indeed.....

I got a note the other day from the company who makes the little map on my blog that tells where visitors are from. They regretfully informed me that every once in a while they clean the slate and delete all my little red dots as if they were nothing more. The note was friendly enough, telling me that if this wholesale cleaning of "dot house" was an inconvenience, they do apologize.

Last night while waiting for the cold medicine to kick in I lay there in the dark imagining all my little red dots as tiny bonfires, each set by people who read my blog and no matter how far away they were, I could always see them there.

I imagined my private little globe being peeled back slowly like a cheap sheet of  sticky paper and all the little red dots like so many thumbtacks going flying off into the universe, never to be seen again.

When I go traveling at night, flying high over the world I find my way by those fires and navigate home again and I wonder now how I will find my reader from Brunei and Turkey and other exotic places that I have only visited in my minds eye.

Tonight, when I travel- I ask you to light those fires and make them very big and bright so I can find you once again.