Summer spirituality, musings on the Supreme Court nominee

Today RNS considers the spirituality of summer, offering thoughts on the subject from different writers:

"Listen to fantasy writer Ray Bradbury describe in his book 'Dandelion Wine' how 12-year-old Douglas Spaulding contemplates the first morning of summer in Greentown, Ill.: 'He saw his hands jump everywhere, pluck sour apples, peaches and midnight plums. He would be clothed in trees and bushes and rivers. He would freeze, gladly, in the hoarfrosted ice-house door. He would bake, happily, with 10,000 chickens in Grandma's kitchen.'"

On a more serious note, we consider Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' stance on assisted suicide: "Little is known about Roberts' views on a range of issues, but in a 2003 dissenting opinion that is now being scrutinized, he expressed a view held dear by many conservatives: that the reach of federal power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution should be strictly limited. "