This paper begins with fragments which came unbidden as I began working with patients during the covid-propelled move to my home office. While my intent in moving to this office was to hold on to my identity as an analyst with so much slipping away and to help my patients hold on to our work through the trauma of covid - not to mention the ongoing political upheavals as well as the horrors of global warming - little did I anticipate that I was moving to a site with a more visible grounding in a social problematic. I hadn’t foreseen the issues which would arise regarding social privilege - issues with which I would fortunately have to reckon working from home in an affluent neighborhood with a dilapidated house next door. Excerpts from my clinical work with 3 patients are presented which reflect efforts to broaden/contextualize my more traditional way of thinking and working.