My Big Project these days is scanning and archiving a 50-year collection of family photographs. Right now I'm doing slides from the late 50's. It's great because I haven't seen most of these in more than 30 years since we stopped having annual family slide shows in the living room. We were all kids then; some Saturday evening at dinner dad or mom would announce that we were going to have slides or 8mm home movies that night. We saw these together again and again and told the same stories and laughed about the same things each time. It was really great. As the first of us entered our teens these family events ended and now I'm sorry they did. They reminded us in a different way of our shared history and reinforced who we were as individuals and as a family. My project work on the slides inspires some of my more reflective journal posts, like the previous one, Firstborn.
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