A big personal project through this year of COVID has been digitizing and then organizing a vast library of family photos, audio, and video dating back to the 1960s. For Hanukkah, I gave each child a G-drive with the entire collection. 1/x
It was a profoundly poignant, emotional project - finally completed just about a week ago. Among the thoughts I was left with ... 2/x
My wife and I have been together since 1987, married since 1988. We've lived in the same house since 1996. On paper, nothing has much changed in our lives. But when you review the video, you see ... 3/x
... that the same one couple can pass through a very great number of marriages in 30+ years. 4/x
And then you get to the final videos, and realize you are nearly the age of your own grandparents in the first of the videos. 5/x
When I finished - and maybe this is an idiosyncratic reaction - I would not have turned back the hands of time for even a single minute. Every minute of it was appreciated as it was lived. No going back, only forward, to the end. - END -
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