Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. -C. S. Lewis

 "Ahh, the wide almond groves in full white flower

Stunning in the morning sun.
Old naked Winter in his garb of grays and browns has run.
Forsythia blooms come and go in the blink of a yellow Eye,
Then, suddenly, mysteriously, Green erupts; and we sigh."

• Michael P. Garofalo