Rainy Days and Mondays and Old Movies Always Get Me Down

One of the most difficult parts of being alone is watching movies that I love all by myself.

Tonight, TCM played a favorite of mine: Splendor in the Grass (1961) with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. Natalie Wood was so beautiful! If it were possible for a woman to turn a gay man straight, such power would have resided in Natalie Wood in this movie. *sigh*

Of course, such power resides in no woman; and, just to remind us of this fact, a young and handsome Warren Beatty was cast opposite Natalie Wood. *sigh. sigh*

Maybe I didn't so much love Natalie Wood as wish that I could be her . . . hmmm

So, here I sat with an old friend - Splendor in the Grass - and no one with whom to share it. And then came the nostalgia for days long gone when there WAS someone here. Sadness and loneliness and longing all well up within.

And then came the end of the movie with Natalie Wood quoting those lovely words from Wordsworth:

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;

Wow. Talk about an epiphany.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind . . .