Like many of us, I dream of summertime’s sweet pleasures. This lovely scene of the blue bench in a dear family member’s garden pictured in this photo, graced as it is with late June-early July sunlight once again, speaks to me of the many sweet things, sweet pleasures of the season. Its quiet beauty enhanced …

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“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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