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CONflict

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 Just a quick note before bed, dear reader. Exceptionally quick because I have already taken Melatonin and am feeling its effects. INFJ, this meaningless assortment of Scrabble chaff is supposed to denote some aspect of my personality. And it does for better or worse. When it assigns a title after taking the quiz it is usually something like "The Ambassador," or "The Negotiator." It is a role I find myself in increasingly at work. The issue is that while my personality is very good at smoothing over interpersonal conflicts it is also somewhat draining to my own social battery, and I do not enjoy it. especially since it is not in my job description. It leaves me somewhat drained, and I think there are some long-term effects that have me rethinking my position. I find myself listening to melancholy Irish Punk music. My favorite song bar none in the Pouge's Fairytale of New York, and it is a song of beautiful conflict. harmonious conflict. Why can't more confli
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Simply Chocolate

 Today, inspired in large part by my niece's Easter Basket exhibition, I went to the drugstore and got some chocolate. My family has a weakness for chocolate, particularly Hershey's. Some of my best family memories involve milk chocolate on holidays.  In recent month -years if we are honest-  we have learned of the unethical ways in which just about every major chocolate company exploits the people and lands that produce chocolate. You can read an article about the coffee or tea industry and get the same story; child labor, slave wages, unsustainable practices, and political corruption in the industry are rampant.  What has often troubled me is the apathy with which the people who consume this product -who enable these industry practices- view the issue. When they deign to notice them at all. As so many of the problems we now face I think the underlying condition that prevents us from taking action is nostalgia. A problem that is particularly pronounced when it comes to confect
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