bon anniversaire......

ok, so today marked a full year since i started my new job/lowstresslife......wow......hard to believe that i am another year older let alone gainfully employeed again for that number of paychecks........if anything my hair is darker rather than greyer...hardly....i thought about the year gone by as i listened to a mother about my age sob about how her 15 year old is starving herself to death.....and begged me to help her to find a good counselor.....and when i gave the name of the best the region has to offer......the woman sat up soberly and inquired....but is she a christian?......as if no help was better than an agnostic......or an atheist....or a muslim....or a hindu...even freud was jewish and he managed to revolutionize therapy (for better or for worse....) ...what about a christmas/easter version of churchmember.......is there a database for that subsection?........i was almost speechless.....almost........and so it goes...in the world of public health...some days i feel righteously qualified to handle the needs of all comers......and other days i am flabbergasted at the state of the area's poor health......rotting teeth, obesity, dirty faces/hands/shoeless feet..unknown birth fathers.......the bottom line......i believe that i am hwere i am supposed to be at this very moment.....and that is just fine for me..........