Cleaning out the garage...of history, on this day

Cleaning out the garage--actually sorting through old boxes and files of time gone by brings back memories and mementos--most of them pleasant, some of them with sadness and regrets. 
Items and more you'd forgotten about, and can't exactly be relegated to the garbage can just yet.
Two or more sides to everything--nostalgia and present tense.

So it is that I found my high school graduation "stuff." Then I saw the date. Lots of miles and adventures since then, and with those blessings, also the realization the years have piled up. 
I'm old--that's what these say about 55 years ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Memo: to my students, my kids, my grand kids...live today.