Yesterdays
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 04:12PM Sometimes time seems to fly away...
Yesterday It seems like I was 5 and my only problem was fighting over who got the front seat in the car with my two brothers. Yesterday also feels like 6 years ago when I first left for California. Yesterday, I feel like I was just in school, underappreciating the opportunity to go to school. I feel it was only yesterday Chad and I got married. Even Christmas feels like it just happened, and the rest of January has been just a blur. Sometimes life feels like you skip the pages and just read the chapter headings.
This weekend I am teaching a class on family photos and your family history. The name of the class is "Telling Your Family's Story." For the class, I have been preparing old photos of my grandparents. My mom wanted me to blow them up to hang in the family cabin, so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. The photos were taken in the early 40's. The pictures are old but artisticly beautifull. You can tell that when the photos were developed they were not developed by a machine....but by hand. The photos are a little off square, which would of happened when transferring the negative to a posative. I think at the time photos were a little more special than they are now. To create a photograph took much more than the 60 minutes that we are used to. And there was no instant gratification of a digital image.
These images remind me of a yesterday I never knew, but one that I can only imagine from stories told by my grandparents, my mom and her sisters. I guess not even my mom was around for this yesterday. After being newly married I think I see more in this photo. My grandparents look happy, hopefull, & adventurous. Even though during this time period their futures would have been uncertain with the world at war, and the economy being weak from the Great Depression. It tells a story to me, that even when you have no means, the important, and joyfull things in life don't stop. I can't imagine that they had much of anything at this time, but to me they look lovely and timeless. I was around for a yesterday when they still were adventurous, traveling around the world, & keeping up with us, their grandchildren. I also remember a doleful yesterday when their bodies would no longer keep up with their adventurous spirits. But I'd like to remember them as they are here. I'd imagine that to them this time was like so many yesterdays...so close but yet so far away.
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