Splendor in the Grass...indeed!

Ok, so this weekend I did much of...nothing, actually. I went to lunch with my cousins for their birthdays and went to Borders and consequently read a book I intended on purchasing. The book, Trump Card by Ivanka Trump, was ok. Let's just say I'm glad I did not purchase it. I need the money. Ivanka Trump doesnt. I was also going to see a movie, which I decided against at the very last minute. I just wanted to go home.

So, from Saturday evening through Sunday night, I laid on my couch and watched Television. Un-interrupted. A HUGE luxury. Yes, when you are a parent, little things like watching a full hour of tv in peace and quiet goes a long way, so imagine a full DAY AND A HALF of tv watching! I hit the jackpot! Any way, one of the movies I saw was Splendor in the Grass starring a young and very very very very handsome Warren Beatty and a very beautiful, naive and sometimes annoying Natalie Wood. Had those two married in real life, they would have made a very Gorgeous Couple. This movie was about a girl who had fallen deeply in love with a boy, but because she was brought up as a proper girl, couldn't give into the boy's desires, and as luck would have it, he fulfilled those desires elsewhere ( unproper girls) and the girl went crazy. She did. She actually ended up in a mental instutition for two years.

The movie was good, but there was one part in particular that I loved...the part in the classroom where Deanie, the lovestruck girl, was in class and forced to read a poem out loud. She couldn't even finish it because her poor heart was broken. But, in the end, Deanie would realize the importance of the poem. And appreciate it.

The poem was written by William Wordsworth, entitled, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, 175-186

"What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind"

In the end, Deanie did find her strength...here's to hoping the rest of us lovestruck fools find ours.

Toodles.