“Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.”
— Doménico Cieri Estrada, Mexican writer, poet, and aphorist

Some treasures aren’t worth what we think. And some burdens we carry aren’t worth the space they take up. If you’ve ever clung to a memory, a regret, or a story simply because it’s familiar, not because it still serves you, this reflection may invite you to pause and take inventory. What are you still carrying that no longer holds value? And what’s waiting to be rediscovered, not for its price, but for its meaning?

“Will pay cash for old glass.”

The words stood out on the poster I’d just pinned to the grocery store bulletin board—my third stop that noon hour.

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