We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.