January 10, 2005:
Anger can be helpful, it can move you forward, it can lead to resolution.
But only, I think, if you steer it toward resolution.
Left to itself it's a diffuse emotion with a tendency to expand in all directions, touching things that don't belong to it, causing damage where there doesn't need to be.
This is my experience anyway.
For a long while I was glad to be angry because I felt it moved me toward resolution of issues which previously had seemed impossible. Now I think it's probably in the way.