I can address this issue of anger from a very personal standpoint. Is it not true that we rale at those we are most comfortable with and know instinctively they care about us? Is it not true that we do this because, to address the real cause of the anger, would be to hammer the last nail?

Aristotle: "Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

Anger is a natural emotion and to suppress it is very dangerous. Obsessive anger is another whole issue.

Some of the anger expressed in the forum, I can understand and even can relate to it, sometimes. Some, I don't understand, at all, and wonder if the individual is just sitting around "gettin' angry."

We have made the mudcat cafe into a real life community, with real life issues and situations. In so doing, we must accept the anger with the laughter. And, there is that inclination to say, at times ... "Jenny Lind, go back an close that door properly."

moonchild