Old pond,
frog jumps in –
splash.
Views from the Edge jumped OUT of the blog pond two days ago. Then… yesterday… it made a big splash. The daily number of visits soared to 1,466 yesterday, 14 times larger than average. Why would the visits go up … at all … after announcing silence? Was it applause? Three cheers for one less noisy gong?
Answer? An earlier post, “The Germans at the Service Club Meeting,” had suddenly gone viral with 1296 visits – on Election Day.
Why or how it happened is a head-scratcher. Maybe yesterday’s inexplicable splash is a tribute to the efficacy of silence, our preference for the Older Pond over the new one, and reason for a humble re-write of Basho’s (1644-1694) old haiku:
New Pond,
frog jumps out –
splash.
This old frog is smiling the day after Election Day. Big money can’t buy the Old Pond…or the country. 🙂
Views from the Edge 
Where ever it comes from, the old saying… ‘The Lord works in mysterious ways..’
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Karin, VERY mysterious…as is always the case, huh! As of this moment (9:22 a.m.) there have been 1,195 visits to the site. 1,102 of them have been “The Germans at the Service Club Meeting”.
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You never know where help comes from, right?
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Might it have gone viral because of your post on Via Lucis? It seems like more than coincidence. How many visits per day do you log? Could it be? Already this morning (8:27 CST) there have been 682 visits. I have a feeling it may have gone viral in Germany and France? Thanks, Dennis. “You never know….” but help does come.
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Gordon, we don’t get the kind of traffic that would generate 2000 hits in 24 hours! You can use the Stats to find out what countries are seeing each individual post.
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Dennis, As of this moment (9:22 CST) there have been 1,195 visits TODAY. I guess silence is golden.
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