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Barbara Rager, " Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" How appropriate a choice of quote. It is of course the closing two lines of Dylan Thomas' poem and it refers specifically to dying. In the opening stanza the same two lines are interspersed with "Old age should burn and rave at close of day". All of which goes to the heart of my very real concern. We are not dying, some of us are quite young, and many of us of all ages are very much alive. It worries me to see people talking as if their life was ending when in fact it has just been changed. It worries me to see people stuck - yes I'll say it again, stuck - in the anger stage of the grieving process for as long as Marling seems to have been. It worries me most of all when anger is being portrayed as preferable to acceptance. Of course we have to experience anger. We also need to move past it if we are to achieve emotional health. If we get stuck in the anger stage we don't need someone to validate it we need someone to bring this to our attention so that we can get help. I am sorry that you have chosen to interpret my attempt to do this for Marling as something negative. Dennis. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 48/onset 32 /dx 37 "It is better to be a crystal and be broken, Than to be a perfect tile upon the housetop." [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++