NEW BLOGMASTER ARRIVES!!!

Well, it's true....once one leaves the Madhouse, it's issues begin to fade. The Enchanted Castle becomes wreathed in mist. Distant. It disappears into the horizon, behind the oh! so vivid Present Day.

Which, no doubt, is as it should be.

The very good people who work there, however, still have reasons to blog! There, inside the mist-wreathed enchantment, battles are still fought...and the conversation must go on!! There's a new opportunity to make a union a real voice, for example. And other stuff....I'm sure.....lot's of other stuff that I know almost nothing about.....being preoccupied, as I am, with trying to help our disabled clients access their benefits....which takes a lot of attention, I'm telling you!

I do still love it, by the way. I am so tickled every time someone who had nothing is provided, because of my intervention, with a hundred dollars in food stamps and a couple of hundred in cash....It doesn't sound like much, does it. But it makes a real, tangible, visible positive difference for each person...How gratifying!! I can go home at the end of the day feeling satisfied - like I did some good....like I actually helped someone. THAT feeling was pretty darned elusive out there, as I recall.

Feeling good about your work is, perhaps the single best thing you can do for your health. Eating medicinal chocolate is the second. Did you know that if you can get ahold of the good stuff - the real dark parts of the "dark chocolate" (the part that all that research has been about), it lowers your cholesterol, lowers your blood pressure, and provides a complete daily requirement of anti-oxidants. Listen to this!: You can loose weight by eating three doses of it per day! Diabetics can stabilize their blood sugars by eating this chocolate. This chocolate is medicine! Delicious, indulgent Medicine!! Check it out.

Love your job, eat lots of chocolate - that's my motto!

And so, without further ado, I'd like to introduce a new BlogMaster, Orpheus. Orpheus has been situated in the thick of the mist, right inside the Enchanted Castle, and is in a much better position than I to advance the conversation that needs to be held in there. I will, of course, be a faithful reader, and an occasional commentor.

Blog about it, people!!! It's a surprisingly powerful medium...change happens when you write, when you exchange ideas with others in dialogue. Blog!....and visualize the way it could be!

Go Orpheus!!!

Hello bloggers. I hope you're still out there and still want to contribute to the blog. I feel it's about the only safe way that OUR opinions can be made known without some kind of retribution . I'm happy to be the next torch bearer and hopefully will be as proficient at writing as the last Blogmaster!

Orpheus