For the trials and travails of the week that was, for the intemperate threats of an immature Kim Jong Un, for the annual reckoning that is tax day, for the two-day collapse in gold prices, for the inconvenience of a local power outage, for old friends who no longer act like it, for the Boston Marathon Terror Massacre, for the death of a loved one in the family far away, for the passing and funeral of Margaret Thatcher, for torrential rains and winds and record-setting floods in West Michigan, the words of The Preacher:
"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
-- Ecclesiastes 7:1ff
