Last night a friend asked on Facebook “what do you think about when you are not doing anything” When your mind is just wandering through those random pathways of memories and wonderings.
Which kind of ties into my birthday coming up – where was I at 30 years ago? Packing up the house for our year in the UK. 21 years ago I was just starting work at Vic University Catholic Chaplaincy – what a watershed that year was.
10 years ago was the beginning of a switch into working primarily in IT and web.
But probably what is most on the surface of my mind is that it is 18 years since a friend of mine was killed in a car accident – I gave her eulogy on my birthday. And on Saturday it will be a year since my Dad died.
Yesterday my Google + account suggested I check out some photo stories it had created from my backed up photos. It seems to have taken a slightly random approach to the task but it was quite impressive with what it had found from some pretty poor quality material.
There was my middle son’s 21 almost 5 years ago, my eldest son’s 30th, the last Christmas with my Dad. In this morning’a paper there were two very unrelated stories that talked about selfies – Cardinal John at Viard College and Dame Maggie Smith about her public life since Downton Abbey. She was talking about how she had become much more recognised and how intrusive that had become with the request for selfies – about how she could almost believe that idea of photos stealing a piece of a person’s soul. The last time I saw John he also commented about how much more tiring it was now everyone’s phone had a camera.
On the one hand I want to challenge the trend of “if I don’t have a photo of it – it didn’t really happen” On the other I smiled yesterday in the middle of a crappy work day at seeing those random snippets of memory. I think I’m going to hunt down the post I started on my other blog about photos of my Grandma and continue this theme tomorrow
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