"Living is like licking honey off a thorn" - so says Susan Lenzkes in her book about living wisely in a world of pain and sorrow.
Great concept.
And doesn't the honey taste sweeter knowing you must taste judiciously and can't just blunder in greedily?
I love the idea of contrast and don't know if truly you can understand health if you've never endured sickness, life if never brushed by death, joy if never crushed by sorrow.
And so today would my heart have leaped so high to see at the turn of my daily walk, one regal violet pushing out of the brown earth, if I hadn't crunched through snow at that exact spot two months ago?
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