newbuzz...This sunny Easter morning in the upper mid-west brings hope on many levels. I am up early and can hear the church bells ringing in my small town. There are sure to be little girls in lacy dresses and little boys with clip on ties in church pews everywhere. For today, families will get together to collect colored eggs and to eat ham and lemon pie. Like Christmas, Easter has become a seasonal marker as well as a Christian holiday. You do not have to be Christian to celebrate it. In fact, Americans will celebrate the arrival of Easter whether they know it or not. Now that Easter has come, retailers can begin to sell summer. Everything from houses to lawn furniture to swimming suits to indoor and outdoor home decor will be advertised to American families en mass. While Christians mark this day with hope for an everlasting life, retailers and merchants across the country are hoping for recovery from the great recession of the late 2000's. I hope for peace, prosperity, long life, health, happiness and everlasting glory. If I behave as though all of these things are possible, I am likely to find them.