It’s party time. This week, Beyond the Flow finally clocked up 50,000 views. Wow! So, we’re going Celebrate with a photographic retrospective.
I’m so excited about reaching this milestone…especially when it took around 2 years to finally reach the 10,000 mark. There was quite a lot of soul searching back then, but what they say about persistence and hard work paying off, is all true. Moreover, it’s not worth selling your soul to get numbers over content. My bottom line is connecting with people and hopefully they find something through my journey crawling over deep and dark crevices in the mountain, celebrating at the summit and then fighting my way along through to the next summit. It’s no wonder I love watching clouds and immersing myself in nature. You can’t seize the day without a bit of balance.
Blogging is very much about reciprocation. Communcation. Conversation. So, it hasn’t just been about me, but I hope it’s equally been about you. Not as some cheap marketing or political cliche, but through sharing each others’ journeys.
The Family
In this way, blogging is very different from writing a book and sticking it out there…especially in the more traditional sense where your book was published by a publisher and reader and writer rarely ever met. That is, beyond fleeting book signings or, at best, author talks.
So, I would like to thank everyone who’s made my blog our meeting place where we’ve poured each other more than a cup of words and made this big planet with all if differences, divides and troubles, shrink and become touchingly intimate.
The Dogs at the Beach.
Sydney
Give Them Cake.
While I wouldn’t say that the blog is a perfect mirror image of our lives, it has captured so many important moments…the highs and lows, the celebrations and disappointments.
That is life with its ups and downs…a never-ending game of Snakes and Ladders…as much as we might not like it at times!
Tea & Coffee
So, the journey continues…asking more questions, some with answers, more without but having that sense of belonging and being part of something beyond myself, where I live and that we can somehow transcend humanity’s shadows.
Love & Blessings to you all!
Rowena
Congrats on the achievement. I love the photo montages by the way! 🙂
Amazing! Congratulations on this milestone!
congrats Ro! Nothing like a milestone to perk you up
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Congrats….that is awesome. Sometimes I wish life was like a blog – show all the happiness, good things and friendship and not the pain you see in the news everyday. Lovely pictures….
Congratulations and am glad to join your list of readers now 🙂
Congratulations! That’s awesome!
Congratulations on reaching that great milestone, Rowena. May you be celebrating many more over the coming year.
Congratulations. A good selection of pictures, too. I think we might be a little embarrassed if our blogs were a complete mirror image of our lives 🙂
Thanks very much, Hugh.
Good point, Derrick and there was a smile on my face too!
Thanks so much, Norah and thanks for being such a big part of it. What makes this really meaningful is that those 50,000 views aren’t just random people but people I’ve come to know and in many cases have become friends.
Thanks very much! xx Rowena
That’s so well put and I agree wholeheartedly with you! Thank you very much! xx Rowena
Thanks very much, Geoff. I thought that one would never happen and am very chuffed!
Thanks very much! xx Rowena
Thanks very much, Dean.
Wow! congrats on that great achievement!
Sam and I send our best canine congrats! Well done. 🐾
Thanks very much, Monika and Sam for being such a part of the journey! xx Rowena
Yes, it is very special to be part of such a community.
Congratulations dear 💕💕
Thanks, Suvi. xx Rowena
Congrats, you really worth it! ❤
Thanks so much, Constance!