My father told me how he handled his anger, especially doing business. He would write a scathing letter with all his feelings and opinions. And he would set it aside for a day, then he would never end up sending it. He said this was how Abe Lincoln handled it. Brad Smith, RPT Manchester, NH -----Original Message----- From: Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Saturday, February 14, 1998 3:44 AM Subject: Re: Right Church, Wrong Pew >At 12:18 AM 2/14/98 -0800, you wrote: >>This relates to the idea of many months ago about putting potentially >>inflammatory posts in some kind of message purgatory for a period of >>time to cool. Since many of my posts fall into that category (written >>for my own catharsis), I can delete them at the last minute and spare >>the galaxy my grumblings. More is accomplished in the writing, in this >>case, than in the sending. >> >>Tom > >Tom, >I realize the benefit of this. Within the past few weeks I too have been >compelled to post 'my opinion' on the matter. > >Instead of clicking the 'send', I click the 'trash'; because that's what it is >(the letter that is - not my opinion. :-) > >I have never gone back into the trash to send it, maybe just to reread; >but I then empty the trash. > >Fires grow with the addition of flames and we need to avoid conflagrations. > > >Jon Page >Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >~~~~~~~~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >
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