thought for the day - photos

i am far from a computer savvy person, but this week i have finally figured out how to scan pictures onto the computer.  Finally LOL  If you have seen me on Facebook, you already know that i have been posting pictures.  i really am enjoying it and it is truly fun to share these pictures and memories with people.  But, in some ways, it has made me sad.  i look at myself in these pictures and i wonder what happened to that person, to that life.  Things that were once important to me are not as much anymore and i miss that.  So many of the pictures, so far, are of family gatherings.  i really do miss having that connection with my family, both immediate and distant relatives.  Getting together to share a meal or celebrate a birthday.  Those were wonderful occasions and Mom was so good about coordinating them.  And i never really realized exactly how many of those kinds of things we did.  So far, most of the pictures i have scanned have been from 1988 and it seems like almost every month there was some kind of get together.  Today, i am lucky to get together with the family once, maybe twice a year.  i want to figure out a way to recapture that.  There are so many people that i just do not see anymore.  And, of course, as one grows older, family and friends change.  The definition of family changes.  It's not simply blood relations anymore.  i long for that sense of family again.  As i continue to scan and post pictures, i will also start finding a way to make those things happen again in my life.  i am my mother's child, after all.  It is possible.  Now, just have to find some other willing participants.

Cheers