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All we ultimately have control over are our actions, reactions, and our words. With practice, we may gain control of our thoughts. Everything else is beyond our control.
In high school, read a biography of Ghandi. He showed me the power of nonviolence, a topic and tool, that has gone out of style.
It Requires listening, which requires one to be at least potentially open to a new idea or viewpoint.
My son could and did yell at me by the hour, sometimes. I listened, gave some remarks, usually of a jovial sort. Eventually he gave up and did something else. It is wearing but now and then, especially teenagers, need to blow off steam. Not reacting made them reasonably far apart.

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Michael Kupperberg
Michael Kupperberg

Written by Michael Kupperberg

San Francisco native, lived mostly in the Bay Area, spent time being a hippie, a real estate broker, residence hotel manager, living in the country, life is goo

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