A Spring SnapshotMarina Feleo Gonzalez, film educator, award-winning screenwriter and playwright, friend of Thomas and Terri Chapin

I shall always remember the day I first met Thomas.

It was springtime…the tree in front of our Jackson Heights, NY apartment was thick with yellow flowers…the slightest breeze would bring a petal shower on the sidewalk.

Just as the three of us—Thomas, Terri and I— were chatting…there was a thick shower of petals.

Thomas looked up… smiled… and said: “Golden shower….”