I think it's safe to say I've never felt so blind and deaf and dumb, and I'm guessing it's only worse for Fletch. This is something I don't think either one of us has been able to adequately convey in any of our writing. We look and can't see things; we listen and can't hear things; we try to speak and we're never certain that our words make any sense to the people we're talking to. In training they told us our job was to be "change agents", a fairly vague title. But I say things like I said to the male leaders not necessarily because I think they're going to hop to it, but to introduce an idea, or to try and hold them accountable for things in a way no one has done before. I didn't expect those guys to march down and give the abuser a talkin' to, but why not say it? This is a town patrolled by its own citizens, criminals are punished more frequently through vigilante justice than through the legal justice system. Why then would it be absurd for town leaders to go talk to a guy who is beating up his relatives. Isn't that a threat to public health and safety? I do agree, we know a lot of really good people here, that's a fact, and we love them. But if I ignore everything outside of them, am I really doing a good job?