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Susan Reese wrote: <<I am presenting a workshop on anger (Anger is NOT a Four Letter Word) at our PD symposium this Saturday. If you have written anything or have any helpful hints or resources on the subject, I would love to hear from you. If anyone else has anything you would like me to use or to address in discussing this often closeted emotion, let me know. My areas of focus will probably be: 1) Why is anger treated like a four letter word? 2)How do we recognize when we're angry and what are we angry about--PDer's anger, CG's anger 3)What are our fears in expressing our anger 4) Rules to follow in expressing anger to others 5) Now that we know we have it, what do we do with it?>> We are not responsible for what happens to us, but we are responsible for how we choose to deal with events. Humor helps us accept and deal with anger. The book, Bad Things Happen to Good People, deals with some of the aspects of our response to beliefs about ill luck; if one believes that higher powers decide our spiritual fate, the thought that punishment is visited upon one can be difficult to deal with if this belief leads to anger at unjust powers that be. Feelings are not good or bad in the moral or ethical sense. What one does after experiencing the feeling is a moral or ethical choice that can be good or evil. I find the exercises of Dr. David Burns The Feeling Good Handbook excellent. ron 1936, dz PD 1984 Ronald F. Vetter <[log in to unmask]> http://www1.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter/