Do you sometimes feel as though it’s a real effort to be happy? So much of the news focuses on daily tragedies that I worry about the fate of humankind. I know that the immediacy of information plays a major role in feeding my concern. The world has always had problems, but the blessing — and curse — of technology is that news doesn’t just travel quickly, it flashes and pings on multiple devices at a warp speed factor of one hundred trillion gazillion. And I’m not helping matters. For Pete’s sake, I have Associated Press alerts popping up on my smart phone with distressing regularity.