Time; Media

Over the past week and a half I clean out the basement of a lot of my stuff. Much of it was trash -- which really made me wonder why I even had it in the first place. A lot was media of some type or other.A small bunch was cassette tapes.I threw them away. I don't have anything that would play them at this point (well, nothing good at least) and I have all of the contents digitally now anyway.One that I saw was the first tape I really begged and pleaded to get. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA.I listened to the album while we were making the chili.It certainly brought back a lot of memories. I get the songs a lot more now than I did when I was 12 or 13.Even though the media that contained the seed of the memories is gone, the memories are still as fresh as ever.I think the cleaning I'm doing of late is serving to at once let me let go of the past and remember it as well. That's a good thing.