How will your grandchildren and great-grandchildren know you? Will they see your sense of style and your personality in those photos you leave behind? Tell your stories through your photographs and not just in the ones you have already taken, but in the photos you have yet to take! What was important to you may be important to them and they didn’t know there was a connection. What are the photographs you are going to take NOW? This is what being alive is about our opportunities from now on! What will those photos mean to us and future generations? We must put mindfulness and intention into them. It’s wonderful to look back but we must look forward. Photos are our connection to our past but we don’t always know what those connections are. I may have lost my dream house but the truth is I can create another garden and another memory TODAY! What memories would you recreate TODAY if you could? Yet more to believe…” Yentl – Barbra Streisand There’ll be memories that tug at my sleeve, Why ever stop searching for it all? I will always want to experience more! There is so much to experience in this world. Now they are a memory only to me! The following is an excerpt from a song in the movie Yentl called A Piece of Sky that has always had great significance for me. I wished I had taken more photographs of my dream house and gardens. I always thought “tomorrow” would be soon enough. I never took enough photos and was thinking I would wait until the garden grew into itself. Sadly, our homes were collateral for our business and a 50 year old company disappeared almost before our very eyes. It was never the right time! That was 2005 and through an unfortunate set of “wrong place”, “wrong time” we lost the house in a foreclosure that occurred when my husband and I lost a company we had purchased prior to the recession of 2008. I wish I had found the time to take more photographs to preserve my memories. I had just purchased my dream house and I wanted the gardens established quickly. My parents gifted me money to get my landscaping well under way. “Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!” Joseph B. What inspires you? Is it writing, music, running, playing an instrument, poetry, sports, photography or gardening? What was it that inspired you to take that picture? Look for the happy moment in each when you look at your photos. Capture the moment and the memory forever!Ĭherish your memories and visit them often and share them! Record the memories and the events of your life! They are the key to the future of your family. My passion and inspiration is gardening and I capture the moments through my photography. Even if you only have a smartphone, snap away! They take great photos! One of my sons captures moments and memories through his music and these tell ‘his’ stories. I usually asked someone else to do it but it wasn’t their priority so once again… ‘ no pictures’. If I was busy, playing hostess or dancing at a wedding, I often let it slip. I was always the one who wanted to take photographs so I wasn’t usually in the picture.
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