Many thanks for your prompt and generous response! I don’t know how much better I make the world though. I may be straight, white, middle-aged and Anglo-Saxon to boot, but I’ve no idea who may be listening to me.Being white may be a semi-prerequisite for air time, but I needn’t tell you that green is the decisive color for getting any — or, mostly, for being listened to at all. The helping professions are something of an exception to that nasty rule, I think. And maybe depth of change in any individual can be as important as breadth, might not that be so?
I appreciate that you, for one, are listening. If you want to read any of my rants, I have some on this site, more on FB and a website at http://nopartyline.blogspot.com.