Photo & Story Treasures: June 2014

Are you a photo stasher or a heritage maker?

Photos aren't meant to be stored. They're meant to be SEEN!

Preserving photos and memories in pages has actually been proven in studies to improve emotional well-being in many ways. Click that link to see a variety of surprising memory-keeping benefits!

In fact, the best way to appreciate life is through memory-keeping. Read more there.

And then get started right here, right now--just follow the steps. It's time! Be a heritage maker.

Everyone has a story. What's yours?

"Every photo tells a story, but always remember this: there was a story teller behind the lens." -Belinda Taylor

"Bridges built between generations are not built by accident. If I want my children and grandchildren to know those who still live in my memory, then I must build the bridge between them. I alone am the link to the generations that stand on either side of me." -Dennis Neuenschwander

"The sheer volume and lack of organization of digital photos for personal memories discourages many people from accessing and reminiscing about them. In order to remember, we have to access and interact with the photos, rather than just amass them." -Linda Henkel, psychological scientist

"Every life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers." -Hans Christian Andersen (inspiration behind LifeTales Books)

"You can make yourself live forever through writing. Do not pass through life without leaving something behind for others to learn from your experience--even if no one but your children read it. You may discover a you you've never known." ~Antwone Fisher

"A birth certificate shows that we were born. A death certificate shows that we died. Pictures show that we lived! Storybooks tell the stories behind the pictures!"

"A book is a gift that can be opened again and again." -Garrison Keillor

"History will be kind to me because I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill

“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.” -Walt Disney

"The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it... We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates." -Robert Coover

"If history were told in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."-Rudyard Kipling

"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by." -Harvey Cox

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." ~Carl Sagan

"My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once to young to remember. Now I make scrapbooks because one day I may be too old to remember." ~unknown

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this." ~Dave Eggars

"People say that a time machine can't be invented, but they've already invented a device that can stop time. Cameras are the world's first time machines." ~Rebecca McNutt

Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts. ~unknown

"If remembering a few miraculous moments strengthens you a little bit, then remembering a lot of miraculous moments will strengthen you a lot." ~Alan Wright

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

It's time!! Be a Heritage MAKER!