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RE: Start your Memoir NOW (or Blog about your life). Have it be a Record of Our Times...
It is funny, I have always loved to write, but not about myself! I know so many people who write daily diaries and it is just not my thing.
I do wish I would have started that at a young age though and formed a habit out of it, when you make it a routine it becomes part of your daily life that you would miss if you did not do it.
It is a very generous gift you give to pass on this complimentary book you authored yourself 💕
I know, that would have been so cool to have been writing from a young age, especially if you had it in mind, for it to be a record of your times.
When I look back and and see the different eras I lived through it kind of surprises me but alas memory is kind of fleeting, so it is kind of a shame that folks leave it until they are older to write their memoirs, how much richer and fuller would it be if it were written when the memories were just happening!
I'm finding right now that I want to share that knowledge to who ever is receptive to it and do my part to help folks flourish in different areas.
I think that came about after working with kids for so many years that I love to see their potential blossom and to open doors for them. It gives me great joy to see them flourish.
The other thing besides memoirs is the family history. It too gets lost and then we ask our parents about family members, but by the time we do, they seem to have forgotten 🙁
Good one @thistle-rocks ! We have some of our family history down because of having family members interested in genealogy etc. but there are still many questions I wished I would have asked my parents while they were still alive. One of them is where did my name come from?
My name is Patrice, which I later found out is a french male name, I'm female, and there is no other family member in our family tree with that name. How did they choose that name.
My friend had a great book (journal) she was working on with her grandmother that had different questions to ask to bring out conversations. She could work on it with her grandmother and her grandmother could also answers some of the questions by herself. Lovely way to get some of these memoirs down.