Subject: Re: Welcome!
Manlobbi,

It's your website to manage as you please. You think that gaining web traffic depends on inviting people, one by one. But I'm a believer in "If you build it, they will come." Also, I really don't care who reads my posts or not. Mostly, I write for myself, because writing is my way of working out my ideas. I figure that if I can explain it to someone else, be they present or not, I can explain it to me.

For sure, at TMF, over the years and under different handles, I've done thousands of posts, nearly every one of which is throw-away material for having no more permanence than footprints in the sands along a shoreline that the winds will soon obscure and the waves will wash away. Occasionally, my reply to a question will be thanked. But for for the most part, the questioner departs the conversation without further comment. So, who benefited from the exchange, him, or me, or both of us in ways neither of us will ever know?

That's the part that requires faith and a belief in karma. If one has ever been helped by someone in the past, it becomes an obligation to pay forward by trying to help others. So I post, because the path I walk, though likely not the same anyone else will ever travel, might have a few less obstacles for someone who does wander onto it than if I hadn't stopped for a while to comment on my journey.

"Faith", says the sheik in the movie, 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen', to the fisheries biologist when he expresses doubt that the hatchery fish will run like native ones would. "You've got to have faith."

Charlie