Thanks, Determined One. I appreciate your response. I have been feeling like I could talk to no one about this and that's when I figured I should re-join the board.
Unfortunately, he gets irritated with my questions just like after the bombs 2 years ago, so right now I am giving him some space. Plus, he tends to keep his feelings out of the open and then during the bomb it's like all this pent up stuff spews.
According to the Buddha, praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow may "come and go like the wind," but happiness comes if you can "rest like a great tree in the midst of them all."