Blog Source I have previously written about the risk we all face of losing our treasured photos and it got me thinking…When your children want to look back on their past, will they have to flick through your old computer to do it?When I was younger one of my favourite pastimes was to snoop.
My parents’ and my grandparents’ homes — their dresser drawers and closets, in particular — were my main targets.
I don’t know what I was searching for, I just know that I wanted to find something fascinating.Some coins, a few letters, but mostly I found photos, some in an old box or arranged in an album.
My grandmother had a very old one she’d inherited from her grandmother that I liked best.
Often my mother or my grandmother would patiently explain to me who the people depicted were and my relationship to them.
Most were of me, my parents when they were young and some much-loved family pets.There was something about those pictures that made me want to keep them for myself.