I have a few boxes myself, it's nice when you can pick up each photo, turn it over....I came along quite late in my family, (my siblings are 9, 10 and 11 years older than I am) so there's a bunch of older pictures and then a bunch of the new baby (me) growing up. I feel like I can ween it all down to a few dozen photos, as I try and imagine becoming highly portable in the near future. I remember how some native folks refuse pictures because they said it would steal your soul....well, maybe, but what we're doing now to people seems like the real soul stealing, literally from within the body. If we only knew what was coming, eh?
LOL it is quite a story! Somewhere in the archives of this substack are a whole bunch of stories that being one of them. It turns out I have two brothers I didn't find out about until 2020...
Thanks for the reminder about physical pictures. Just last week I spotted an old photo of daughter’s yearbook picture in an old wallet I am keeping, whose digital counterpart was lost during lockdown along with 15 years of RAW digital photography files from malware that took out my Mac and the backup drive.
I've been in a multiyear effort to get my pictures off of facebook and backed up elsewhere. I have managed to do so for all of the iconic ones but I have several videos that I want off the site too and those have been real tricky. I think digital and physical copies is best with a lot of redundancy...
My parents home is in Long Beach, MS. Everything on the south side of the train tracks — between the Gulf of Mexico and the train tracks — was obliterated. Nothing left. Just devastating. Fortunately my parents had moved to the north side of the tracks after Hurricane Camille in 1969.
Those photos are WONDERFUL!!!
I have a few boxes myself, it's nice when you can pick up each photo, turn it over....I came along quite late in my family, (my siblings are 9, 10 and 11 years older than I am) so there's a bunch of older pictures and then a bunch of the new baby (me) growing up. I feel like I can ween it all down to a few dozen photos, as I try and imagine becoming highly portable in the near future. I remember how some native folks refuse pictures because they said it would steal your soul....well, maybe, but what we're doing now to people seems like the real soul stealing, literally from within the body. If we only knew what was coming, eh?
By coincidence, my neighbors and I were talking about our heaps of family photos yesterday. We should have been looking. Such fun!
So......your mother was a nun? If so, that sounds like quite a story.........
LOL it is quite a story! Somewhere in the archives of this substack are a whole bunch of stories that being one of them. It turns out I have two brothers I didn't find out about until 2020...
Interesting, from back before I found you.........
I found that side story, which is a three part with links:
https://sukwan.substack.com/p/collage-of-compliance-71-the-ties?
Thanks for the reminder about physical pictures. Just last week I spotted an old photo of daughter’s yearbook picture in an old wallet I am keeping, whose digital counterpart was lost during lockdown along with 15 years of RAW digital photography files from malware that took out my Mac and the backup drive.
I've been in a multiyear effort to get my pictures off of facebook and backed up elsewhere. I have managed to do so for all of the iconic ones but I have several videos that I want off the site too and those have been real tricky. I think digital and physical copies is best with a lot of redundancy...
By all means keep photos! Great memories!!
My parents home is in Long Beach, MS. Everything on the south side of the train tracks — between the Gulf of Mexico and the train tracks — was obliterated. Nothing left. Just devastating. Fortunately my parents had moved to the north side of the tracks after Hurricane Camille in 1969.
It was like nothing I had ever seen before there. I'm glad your parents got out of the real bad disaster area...
What do you know about the Great Gatsby of Thailand?