Nothing Gold Can Stay: REDUX - Part One

👹 The Devil Within — Nothing Gold Can Stay: REDUX Robert Frost wrote that “Nothing gold can stay.” It’s only eight lines long, but inside those lines is a lifetime: birth, decline, grief, and the eternal fall from innocence. In this special Redux edition, I break down Frost’s masterpiece—its rhythm, its ache, and the hidden theology within the line “So Eden sank to grief.” Behind that quiet phrasing lies the ancient idea of the Felix Culpa—the fortunate fall, the notion that through tragedy comes salvation. We’ll also revisit how this fragile little poem found new life on screen in The Outsiders, becoming a cinematic elegy for youth, decay, and the inevitable end of innocence. And then, the darkness returns. Because in the final days before the Clinton Road murder-suicide, Tommy Sullivan claimed he saw something staring back at him from the mirror. Something that wasn’t him. When the Catholic Church learned of what Tommy described, the fear was immediate—and absolute. 🎧 Liste...