“Mining for Memories”

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In this age of digital photos, we take a bunch, but we don’t always preserve them. We should. Photos, like wine and books and people, often become more important to us with age. “Mining” this photo carried me deep into my childhood, where I wandered around for a while, and when I came back into the light, everything looks a little more dear.

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Deep breath. Here we go…

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In the summer of 2007 I noticed an obituary for the mother of a classmate of mine. Her mother was a good friend of my mother and a few weeks later I attended the memorial that the children held to honor her life. The afternoon was filled with many impressions.

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