Today my 12 year old daughter picked this photo from the shoebox. She thought this photo was of my younger sister. That alone confirms the importance of telling your photo's story. Here is what else she learned:
- Her Grandma had me at age 24
- Her Great Grandma had her last baby 18 years after her first baby (who is my mom)
- In this photo is a picture of her Great Aunt Barb sitting next to her Uncle Rick
- The photo features me in the foreground
All this I knew and shared with her in a span of two minutes. She was interested and surprised and then went back to what she was doing. If all we did was take a couple minutes each day to share a bit about our families, using a photo as the tool to communicate, what changes do you think that would make in our lives? For me it reconfirms the necessity of my shoebox stories, but it also goes a little deeper. Could this be the conduit to reconnecting families and building bonds that seem a bit frail in this electronic world? Let me know what you learned today about a photo from your shoebox.
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