I thought I would take a quick moment to write about one of the goals I am working towards this year. Have you every thought “if only I had asked Mom or Dad about…..”? I know I have. Last year I started a project “My Past, Your Future”. It is a scrapbook aimed not as much about photos as it is about memories. Sadly, I got side tracked after my mom passed last February and started working on a scrapbook about my trip to Florida and back after my retirement (which is another work in progress, can’t work on just one thing at a time!). So my goal is to finish!
So what is this project? A friend of mine, and my scrapbooking mentor Beth Lilja, is leading a group exercise that poses a set of unique questions each week that you then take and reflect and write about. For example, here is the prompt for Week 1:
What is your full name | why did your parents give you that name | were you named after a family member or somebody significant | is there a story about your name | how do you feel about your name | do you wish you had a different one | do you have a nickname and how did that come about | did someone give you that nickname or did you do something to trigger that nickname?
You pick out which question or questions that speak to you and write about them, if you scrapbook about them you might add some art or photos.
This is a free group activity. You can join in by Zoom or you can get the prompts through email (or both), it is your choice. There is a website dedicated to example pages (many of us do this as a scrapbook, but you are free to do your own thing such as simply writing in a notebook). You then save this for your children, nieces, nephews, cousins, etc. The hope is the project, when completed, will help answer some of these questions.
Interested in joining in? Beth or Lindsey will send the first prompts to help you get caught up. To sign up go to www.gettingorganizednow.com. There is no obligation to finish, but I highly recommend checking it out. If you want to learn more first, feel free to drop me a note! Below is the last page I worked on as an example, it definitely needs a lot of editing!
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