Silver and Gold
It was Brownie day! Before school, I pulled my Brownie dress over my head and fastened my narrow Brownie belt around my waist. I stuck my toes in my Brownie socks, pulled them over my heels, and pushed my feet into my leather shoes. Mother brushed my hair before I put on my brown felt Brownie hat. Most of my school clothes were pretty dresses Mother made for me. My Brownie uniform was different. Mother had bought it where all the other girls’ mothers had purchased theirs, at the Harvey’s Department Store in downtown Nashville. On that one day each week, we were a little troop of conformists. We children of the sixties wouldn’t be wearing our bell-bottoms for several years yet.
After school, I walked with the other Brownies to Miss Doy’s house for our weekly meeting. In the early 1960s, Brownie meetings weren’t about earning patches. We learned how to be helpers, and we had fun. A favorite activity in our troop was singing. The words to one song have stuck with me through the years. We sang it in rounds:
Make new friends,
But keep the old.
One is silver,
And the other gold.
Jesus taught us the value of both when He died on the cross for them and for us.
Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend.
Proverbs 27:10, NASB
Did you ride the merry-go-round at Harvey’s? 🙂
Charlene, I am really enjoying your posts. Thank you for your sweet, wise observations. Have loved Notgrass curriculum for several years!