I had a lovely lunch with my friend, who knows full well how hard it is to do work while feeling helpless.

Crisis cases come to her *long* past the point where intervention is needed, so we talked about the failures of public policy, the persistence of self-destructive human behaviours through times & contexts, & why current governance structures make change so hard.

...all while we ate a homecooked meal, admired her garden, & listened to vallenato in the distance, on a beautiful afternoon. 🙂