Dear T: The other thing I'm really in touch with today is how much of a wreck the world is, and it hasn't changed in the 25 years I've been doing this work. I wish the people I work with didn't have to go through such pain, the violence at home and in the community and at school and at work, then the abuse of power in the systems supposedly designed to help. Sometimes I think that my participation in the System is just a farce, as the monster is going to chew up people and spit them out, pretending because I'm their advocate, this is all somehow fair. And it is not fair. Not at all. Not one single teeny bit.