Lately I seem to have written a lot
of posts about preserving memories, but that’s because the subject is on my
mind. My mother-in-law died in February without preserving hers. One of my
friends returned from a trip to Africa in early May to discover that three
elderly acquaintances had died while she was gone—they had all started memoirs
but never finished them. But the most significant reason is that my older
brother, Donald (on the far right in the photo), has Parkinson’s Disease, and
he took a turn for the worse in March as the result of a fall. I don’t know if
he was planning on writing his memoirs—although it wouldn’t surprise me—but it
is less likely now.
Although I had always planned on writing
my memoirs someday, the operative word was “someday.” I still have other
projects in the works, but “someday” has just changed to weaving it in whenever
I can. I pulled some electronic resources together before Roland and I went on
a Baltic Sea cruise in May, and I wrote during our down time, especially the two
days at sea. I still have a long way to go but am determined to get it done as
soon as possible.
My current goal is simply to record
all my significant memories in one place to preserve them for my children, so
once I get this informal document written, I will put it aside for a while. But
if I decide to prepare it for publication, I will have the first draft done.
That’s my motivation.
What about you?
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The photo was taken in 1995. The
other people in the photo are me and Roland, in the back, and my children, John
and Caroline, in the front.
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