{"id":3464,"date":"2021-04-11T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"nothing-gold-can-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been loving the advent of this current springtime more than any other I can remember. We didn&#8217;t make it back to Indiana until mid-April last year and so we had already missed the first blossoms when they are at their brightest and hardiest. And of course we didn&#8217;t experienced last spring as the far side of a cold and dreary Indiana winter &#8211; and that makes a difference in appreciation levels for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And maybe I&#8217;m just a bit more melancholy than past years, but this spring has inspired in me just as much sadness as awe. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m getting older and the kids are leaving the nest and I am unexpectedly in the midst of reevaluating my career trajectory while in my 50s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess things are feeling so &#8230; temporary.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To top it all off, recently (some of) my 8th graders have been reading <i>The Outsiders<\/i> by S.E. Hinton and she has the narrator at one point recite a famous Robert Frost poem he learned in school.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it is a sad little poem:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333;text-align: justify\">Nothing Gold Can Stay<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nature&#8217;s first green is gold,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her hardest hue to hold.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her early leaf&#8217;s a flower;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But only so an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then leaf subsides to leaf.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Eden sank to grief,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So dawn goes down to day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing gold can stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sad, but true.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a way of illustrating the veracity of Frost&#8217;s claim that &#8220;nothing gold can stay&#8221;, compare these two pictures of the blooms on the cherry tree Melissa and I planted in our front yard many years ago now.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the first:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210330_181929-2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1536\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210330_181929-2.jpg\" width=\"480\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the second is just <i>four days later<\/i>:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210403_090430-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210403_174830-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"1451\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been loving the advent of this current springtime more than any other I can remember. We didn&#8217;t make it back to Indiana until mid-April last year and so we had already missed the first blossoms when they are at their brightest and hardiest. 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