“She should snap out of it!” she retorted angrily at my suggestion that perhaps an apology was required to mend fences with a mutual friend who had taken offense at a joke she had posted on social media deriding this particular friend’s religious beliefs. Another acquaintance allowed resentment to fester in her heart until she severed all ties with someone, who had been a dear and close friend until then, over a perceived slight. Anger, resentment, ire, frustration, fury, hos

“Where do I go from here?” I could hear the pain in my friend’s voice, his fear of the unknown, his impotence to change the circumstances he is living in after the untimely death of his wife of thirty something years. Later, speaking to a patient, I hear her sob, “He was my whole life. And, now I will never have his babies or know what is like to grow old with him.” Another one simply stated, “ There is not a single day I don’t miss her and wish she was still here,” as she sp