We're Not Letting Go of the Woodstock Album!

on July 12, 2011 by Walt Dilg

We're Not Letting Go of the Woodstock Album

When have you reached the age to pass on the albums or books of your formative years?  I think it can come most any year.  For me, it's now.   Deb's mom passed on and we are glad to move into our home some of her furniture.  I can see it in Debbie's childhood home and am glad to have it in ours.  Yet there are limits to how much you can cram into a structure, so somethings have to go to make room for the new stuff.  Who would have thought it was the albums and cassettes of our youth?!  

Yikes!  it is!!  It is that stuff and anything else we have not used in the last year or two or so...  Is that a rule somewhere...  if you don't use something in a couple years it is time to pass it on?...  I don't read Shakespeare every year but we keep a collection of his plays.  

You know, if a fire took these items, i could rise above it and assert how non-materialistic I am and that things are only things, and how I could let them go, sad, but let them go to the catastrophe of the fire.  Yet it is harder to let them go on your on account.  The "Best of Joni Mitchell" or "Dark Side of the Moon" --- how can you pass these on even is you don't pull out the vinyl and listen to it each year.  

OMG.  Lord have mercy.  Still growing up and moving forward at 58.