At 6:09 AM -0400 3/23/07, MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx wrote:
My own parents are long gone but I find that I value early photos of
my parents rather than the later ones. Do everything you can to
gather in even the photographically imperfect earlier images. (and
record as much of the detail on date and names of other people in
the photos.- we have an extensive album of pictures from my father
in law's service in the army in India between the two World Wars -
sadly without anyone at all being named and no accurate date or
location.)
So far as my grandchildren are concerned I think I would prefer
them to see/ or keep pictures of a younger me. Michael
Interesting. I look at all the photographs of my parents from my
infancy until their death and recall the people I knew all those
years. None is more or less precious, more or less beautiful or
handsome or conflicted or problematic. They are the people I came
from, whose natures I can't leave behind but which contributed to who
I now am.
I would hope that my estranged step-daughter would look at what
pictures she has of me with that same sense of continuity, of
awareness of my impact on her life, of memories of moments we shared
and things she learned from me that still matter to her.
I would be sorry, indeed, if she attempted to pretend that those
events never happened, or that she never learned from me the things
she did.
Trying to keep only some memories seems to me like willingly wishing
to not grow.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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