Girls Coffeeshop Talk

[Kinnakeet]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


It's funny - I was nutty about the book but never saw the movie. I still have the paperback from 1974 (look at that 75 cents price!), complete with my 11-year-old's doodling, when I read the book. Phoebe was thrilled to have it and brought it to school during the study of that book. I also gave her my 1970s Levi's jeans jacket (I guess like the one Johnny wore), still in pretty good shape after all these years. She wears it every day to school.

Good morning coffeeshop.
Lisa- the Robert Frost poem could be set to music....I can hear a soulful, sorrow filled tune when I read it; just beautiful!
Your 1974 "doodles" show a blossoming artistic hand! It is also a magical thing when your child truly wants to pick up an interest/passion that you had at her age...