diaspora

This is where the last 100 people who checked my blog live (minus New Zealand and Malaysia):

Ninety percent of them I know.

Ten years ago I would have never thought my friends would be so scattered. I think it's lucky. (Not because I don't want them around--that would be good too--but because their diaspora is the consequence of the kind of people they are. Talented. Ambitious. Educated. Professionally competent. Adventurous. Interesting.)