But the last few weeks of spring usually surrender a cornucopia of important mayflies, and their hatchings and twilight egg-layings are just cause for celebration.
As Simon put it to me over the phone earlier today, patients usually freely surrender their tissue and information to hospitals, but why should they?
SHOPPING online or visiting a Web site that requires registration usually means surrendering some privacy -- providing a name, e-mail address and other personal information.
Which, of course, means death, usually from surrendering too many of their pieces to go on living.
The usually reliable Mike Stanton surrendered the lead in the eighth but watched as Arizona closer Byung Hyun Kim allowed a game-tying home run to Tino Martinez with two outs in the ninth and a game-winning homer by Derek Jeter in the 10th early today.
Hampton had sat in the dugout less than an hour earlier, watching as Benitez, the usually reliable Mets closer, surrendered a leadoff home run in the top of the ninth inning to pull a hard-earned victory away from him.
Elsewhere, queens were abandoning their colonies after just a few weeks rather than the year or more they usually serve, apparently surrendering their power to an incoming queen.
While taking the high road of surrendering is usually the best choice in a stressful coparenting situation, there is one situation that always requires your intervention.
While I am usually drawn either to surrender or take on new during Lent, my attention this year is on the high incidence of traveling metaphors commonly used by writers, speakers, pastors, and priests alike, when describing Lent.
So far, they have surrendered 188 yards a game — or almost 100 yards less than Washington usually gains through the air.
