Tribute creation.

2012 January 28

Created by Linda 12 years ago
As I started to build my Tribute to William New today, I frantically searched for photos of him. I just wanted to 'go back' to a time where "all was good" or as it would seem through the innocence of childhood. Using Photos to Remember..."Here today, gone tomorrow" — the past is as slippery and hard to hold as a wet fish. But when we have a photo, our memory of the past may become much clearer—or we may find something new to notice, some new discovery about the past that has eluded us. Seeing Double - "Finding the Truth"--- For most of us, a photograph is a way of holding the past in our hands; seeing what happened... when, and with whom. Photos are a testimony to a time now gone, and to our intimate connection with people who may no longer be alive. They are a way of "seeing double"—recalling past events and reliving them in the present. Look back at photos of your loved one, think about your relationship with them. And putting yourself back into the perspective of the person you were at that time, try to remember why they were important to you then. Because we know that influential relationships are often double-edged: that is, we may be influenced to change in ways that might not be altogether right for us. You may want to think about how your life might have been different if the person in the photo had not been there. Think about you learned from this person that you now wish you hadn't? You may be surprised by what you learn from this. Photographs can be a key to the treasures, and the traumas, of the deeply buried past.