Thanks for your response Omers. I think the box idea to focus on smaller specific issues is a good one. It might help me and T to contain my tendency to drag in everything all at once.
And get nowhere.

Compassion fatigue. I havent heard that description before.
Im a retired health care worker. Mother of two.
Caring for and about others has always been part of my life. Now I feel helpless faced with the enormity of problems in our country and world.
Doesnt seem enough for me to care only for my little clan and immediate community.