Inspirations - Stay Gold...

Nothing Gold Can Stay

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...

~Robert Frost

I cannot begin to express the impact SE Hinton books and the subsequent movies had on my childhood.  To find out that SE Hinton hid her gender to get her books published was an added inspiration.  It was almost as though she was on a mission to inspire irrespective the discrimination of the times.  This Robert Frost piece was the diving board into the hope she would inspire writing the novel named "The Outsiders"...

The piece itself is the only one I've ever truly read as I always wanted my voice to be my own but beyond that, it serves as a clarion call to all it's readers.  Nature has it's timeline as it flows in finite terms but the book added a "hope" if you will.  For a humanity that grows stale and lifeless with time, SE Hinton was saying it doesn't have to be that way for us.  We can still find beauty in the simple things.  We can still experience love even if we've seen it whither.  We can still smile at sunrises and cry at sun's setting even amidst the harshest realities.  It taught me one thing that I will forever hold dear:

I can intricately know the mechanics of many things and still find wonder in their operation.  I can see the future's good and bad tides but still want to brave them as unknown fascinations.  To still see the beauty of all things left behind and all that is to come even when you have their detailed exposition at your disposal.  Gives one the hope needed to "try" and the longing desired to "experience".  Things I truly thank my Lord...I still have...

~Moses