Apologies, readers-mine.  I have been remiss.  As you have no doubt guessed, I have been a busy soul. Since I last wrote on here, there have been: three deaths, two weddings, a new business started, a college application season nearly completed, an old friend has become a newly minted inner-circle soul, and a bunch of poetry has been published.  See?  Busy.  I know you'll forgive me.  Right?