Before Johnny Cade dies in SE Hinton’s The Outsiders, he tells Ponyboy to “Stay Gold.” He references Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. This poignant moment, the profound change resonates these days. So patch up a favorite sweater, sew in this love note, and let’s move (carefully) back into the world. (Comes with an envelope in case you need to post one to a friend.)

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