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Below are some short descriptions of some of the stories in the TellOurLifeStories Collection. Also below are a few quotes about the importance of preserving our stories.
Last month in the newsletter, I asked for stories about your favorite applicance and here is an example of one of the snapshot stories My Hair Dryer
And here is an example story: How Phyllis and Elbert Met
| After
Mike Died, I Learned to Quilt by Margaret A story about the transition into widowhood. |
Diary Stories By Eleanor An excerpt from diaries kept by her father more than 50 years ago. |
My
Hair Dryer! By Penny A story in response to a newsletter suggestion to get started in an easy way by writing about a favorite appliance. |
| The Diagnosis By Carol A breast cancer survivor talks about the process of recovery. |
Getting Arrested by Pegatha About participating in a protest and the outcome. |
My First Family Camping Trip by Michelle Remember those camping trips from when you were young and tried to fit everything into the car? |
| Tug of War by Ardyth About a surprise visit from a racoon. |
Happy Birthday Jill by Bill A story of love years ago that mellowed with age. |
The Brookover Desk By LaVerne About a desk that held pens and paper and family memories. |
| The Inauguration By Margaret A story about going to Washington D.C. |
A Childhood Friend by Cara Memories of a friendship that extended through the years. |
Dear Cousin Shirley by Judith A story in letter form remembering the times during World War II in England. |
| Lessons from
my Daughter by Tom About a Dad and his girl. |
Italy Part I by Trevor Memories of an annivesary trip. |
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"The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person," Andy Rooney. "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them," Isak Dinesen. "If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten," Rudyard Kipling. "Knowing our past, we shall find strength and wisdom to meet the present," Gertrude Weil. "One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids," Robert De Niro.
"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such an thing is an impossibility. Inside the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy," Mark Twain. "I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were," Oprah Winfrey. "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms," Muriel Rukeyser.
"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have," Marge Piercy. "The past actually happened, but history is only what someone wrote down," A. Whitney Brown. "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it," Sir Winston Churchill.
"To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root," Chinese Proverb. "This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end it's the family stories that are worth the storage," Ellen Goodman. "Life is not that which one lived, but that which one remembers, and how one remembers to tell it," Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
