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"Surpassingly lovely, precious days.  What is there to say except    here they are.  Sifting through my fingers like sand." - Joyce Carol Oates

I have not posted here for over a year.  To say I've been busy would be an understatement.

At the end of 2011 I volunteered to take on a full time volunteer position as Volunteer Chairman of my support group.  We had been losing a thousand dollars a month for the three previous years and were down to the choice of either closing our business office or trying to operate it with all volunteers.  Because I believed that not only was it possible to run it with volunteers, but that it would be a better office with more to offer our membership.  When one feels this way there is only one thing for a woman like me to do and that was to accept the chairmanship and prove that what I believed could be done.  So, I accepted the chairmanship and agreed to do it for one year.  While It was not easy, we did it and it has been a roaring success and for the past year we have operated with a one thousand dollar profit each month.  The profit is wonderful, but the revitilization and participant enthusiasm is the real benefit.

In addition to the profit we have changed the face and direction of our office.  It is now a place folks want to visit and the volunteers are innovative and empowered.  It has been, for me, a wonderful experience and while I now am a Trustee of the organization and a member of the current volunteer committee, I have turned the chairmanship over to a woman who is competent to chair the committee and is doing a great job with the volunteers.  

Now I have time to do other projects and one of the things I want to do is to come here more often and write my thoughts and to to your blogs and read yours.