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[Rosina]

Hello you all,
Thank you for your interest and your many messages.  I guess I owe an explanation:
Disgusted  by the monumental mediocrity of the US body politic, candidates, voters and the press, as demonstrated in the recent presidential election, I decided to imitate Ralph Waldo Thereau and remove myself from such annoyance.
As evidenced by recent events,   stunning mediocrity is the terrible price to be paid for the candy of political equality... and, as H.G.Wells wrote, it is one of the great dangers confronting Western Civilization...... 
And there's nothing to do about it but to follow the example set by the author of Walden Pond. And so.  I have given up reading newspapers and news magazines and watching news on TV or the internet.
After several weeks of this new discipline I've finally trained myself to read only the Arts section of the New York Times and Opera and Ballet News.  I watch only PBS on TV (and Lifetime, of course), and I think I can now open a computer without sliding into the same old news and current events miasma.

An d so: there have been many changes at the Pilgrims Office in Santiago. Almost everyone is new, and, as a result of the turnover, such things like the compilation and posting of  statistics have fallen behind.... but here are some comparative data  that show the relentless increase in the number of pilgrims.

 









MESES DE LA PEREGRINACIÓN



AÑO 2006



AÑO 2007



AÑ
O 2008





ENERO



314



350



306





FEBRERO



351



666



703





MARZO



1093



1680



5328





ABRIL



7438



8112



5655





MAYO



9992



12898



15988





JUNIO



12946



15157



15860





JULIO



18560



20108



20983





AGOSTO



25968



27140



29733





SEPTIEMBRE



13451



15189



17283





OCTUBRE



7661



9434



9871





NOVIEMBRE



1755



2496



2300





DICIEMBRE



848



796



SIN DATOS





TOTAL



100377



114026



124010






 


I've a lots of other interesting news to convey..... and wll do so in a follow-ip message, I promise.

Hugs for now.

Rosina.