{"quotes":[{"text":"And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but suddenly seems unfamiliar, light. I have felt so heavy for so long. At first I felt odd- as if I shouldn’t be feeling this lightness, that familiar little catch of pleasure in the heart which is inexplicable, though a lovely passage of notes or the splendidly turned petal of a tulip has triggered it. It’s my buoyancy, part of what keeps me alive: happy, suddenly with the concomitant experience of a sonata and the motion of the shadows of leaves. I have the desire to be filled with sunlight, to soak my skin in as much of it as I can drink up, after the long interior darkness of this past season, the indoor vigil, in this harshest and darkest of winters, outside and in.","author":"Mark Doty","tags":["grief","grieving","joy","spring","spring-awakening","sunshine","winter"],"id":44690,"author_id":"Mark+Doty"},{"text":"Spring time is a time for new adventure.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adventure","adventure-travel","hope-and-love","hope-for-each-day","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful-people","hopeful","seasons-and-year","seasons-of-life","spring","spring-awakening","spring-time","time","time-travel"],"id":205753,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Winter is a time to pause, reflect and renew for the coming Spring.","author":"Eileen Anglin","tags":["nature","spring-awakening","spring","winter","winter"],"id":267001,"author_id":"Eileen+Anglin"},{"text":"Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["christmas","easter","empowerment","faith","famous-poets","famous","freedom","grace","healing","healing-the-past","heart","inspirational","inspiring","joy","joy-of-the-spirit","light-of-the-spirit","mythopoeic-fiction","mythopoeic-literature","mythopoeic-novels","mythopoeic-writers","positive-motivation","rebirth","recovery","resurrection","song-lyrics","song-lyrics-from-poets","songs-from-the-black-skylark","soul","spring-awakening","springtime","starting-over","strength","world-suicide-prevention-day","zped-music-player"],"id":352489,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Ha! Spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin,carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["art","astir","beauty-in-nature","book","books-reading","coir-palanquin","fondle","forest","leaves","liberty","murmuring","naturalist","nature","poesy","poetry","softness","spirited","spirited","spring","spring-awakening","spring","springtime","thoughts","venus-and-crepuscule","zephyr","zephyrus"],"id":378743,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}