Don Adams:
CLASS OF 1965
Galena High SchoolClass of 1965
Galena, KS
Liberty Elementary SchoolClass of 1961
Galena, KS
Don's Story
The old guy posing for the camera--guess that's me in the picture, though inside, and especially when I visit Classmates.com, I'm still a gangly 17-year-old, riding the bus back from Rockaway Beach on a beautiful, but just a bit melancholy, spring day. That was a bus ride not just away from the memories of the Senior trip, but away from the mostly-predictable life of a high-schooler, and toward a future filled with questions and decisions and experiences unimagined.
I remember walking home the four blocks from the new high school building, after the long bus ride back to Galena that beautiful spring day. I cried very quietly as I walked past my grandparents' home, past Dolly's Cafe, the old ice house, Carter's, and Wheelen's Grocery. My tears were for all the goodbye's to come, the endings and the beginnings, the Commencement, the passing of a life.
Now, more than 52 years after that sadly happy time when the life behind us pressed us forward toward opening doors and new adventures, the memories of that spring day so lon...Expand for more
g past are as fresh and real as if they had happened only yesterday. I can feel the sun warming my back, the tears brimming, the strange sensation of feeling happy and sad and free and anxious all at once. So much has happened in the years since that time.
Looking back is like watching an old, familiar movie; all the characters known, the outcomes and conclusions foregone, the highs and lows all anticipated. Yet, I love to watch the reruns again and again. They remind me that the current scene is unfolding; that clips and snippets are being stored for future viewing; that the present cast of characters will take, or retain, their honored places on the mantle of my memory, along with all those who have played their parts in the past.
The movie/life metaphor is captured in one of my favorite quotes: "My life has a great cast; I just can't figure out the plot." Despite the sometimes puzzling, evolving script, to the cast I say, "Thank You," those of you who have shared the screen, however briefly, in "The Story of My Life."
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