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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  That's a great idea.  How do I make sure something like that doesn't get lost?  That its available for them?  We almost need to designate a place in the house... a safe, etc...for "stuff" that we dont ever want to get lost.  I think writing that down would be the most useful one day, because if I"m fortunate enough to get really old, I'll never have remembered how I felt "back then".  There seems to be a veil one passes through at different stages of life.  It is hard to convey knowledge across it, because it changes us in some way.

Dad is 71, I wish I'd had something he had written when I was about 7.  The most emotion he's really shown is once, when his own dad/mom were moving from their home to a Condo at a retirement castle (which becomes assisted living which becomes a nursing home room), anyway they were cleaning stuff out and Granddad just gave us this telescope he hand-built in 1970.  Yeah, he [i]built[/i] freaking [i]telescopes[/i].  My dad shed exactly one tear on the way home in the car that night in 1998, remarking how it was something his father had built and cherished and now was ready to just "hand over".

Life is like walking down a dark hall carrying a candle.  You can see 2 (or 3) generations behind/older than you, and you can see 2 (or 3!) generations in front of you in your old age if you are so fortunate, but beyond that in either direction it is dark and knowable really even in the best of circumstances.  Has the digital revolution changed this any?  90 years from now, will my great grandkids be able to read some blog post I made...or will that end up no more permanent than a discarded letter that was sent in 1925?

Whats not lost on me at all is that I actually have the good fortune of two parents who are still around and doing well, not everyone does.  Or does not have good relationships with their parents.  [/quote]

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