It's been a difficult turn of the calendar month from June to July...usually a time of growing excitement about summer, fireworks and much fun. That's the kind of summer all young people can take a few notches above what middle aged people might want to pursue (except for those who of course never grow old...)
That said, we all have had our own kind of 'gathering of the hearts and minds' reflecting on the beauty of everyone in our lives...even the frenemies, even the 'ex's' of friends, family, spouses or whoever we've somehow been separated from, voluntarily or involuntarily, for short