“Serious business.” How’s your heart rate when you hear this phrase? Which scenarios leap to mind? A hardship, maybe? A significant task with your name on it, perhaps one considerably overdue? Or much larger challenges impacting us all on the societal, even global scale? Tragedies, too, which proliferate? “Joy” is certainly not the first thing …

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Holy grief—is there such a thing? Or is all grief horrid, unholy, the pain we cannot welcome? Then again, is holy grief the only kind of grief, the right kind—the other kind of grief is . . . is what? Can someone tell me what unholy grief would be? I have my moments when the …

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