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crysthewolf Listening to stories. LOVE it. Have you ever heard of the Story Corps project from NPR? Check it out here, it's vera cool.
I had to drive to work this morning because I need to go to my doc's office right after work, so I had a CD in that Chris lent me of an interview project that he did with his grandfather. It's very similar, really, to the story-corps project, except that he let his grandfather just talk, for a long, long time.
It was FANTASTIC.
Not done with the CD, but I just love the stories. It's the kind of thing that you just want to hang onto, because it's life, and it's history, and it's the entire world through the eyes of one person who's been there... who can tell you that everything's going to be alright because he knows it will be, and he knows it always HAS been... even through the bad stuff.
I don't know why, but it strikes me as a fantastic legacy, even if it ISN'T my own. I don't know if I'd ever have the inclination to do the same for my family, just because there are so many stories that are unverified and I don't want to have to chase them all down. See, my family likes to TELL stories. ;) Stories that sometimes aren't true.
I would sit down with my grandmother and do some... but she's lost so many of them that I think it would only frustrate her to try and find them again. Gramma Snow is suffering from Alzheimer's. I'm not sure how much longer she has, and I'm not sure how much longer we'll have HER.
Someday, maybe, I'll take down my brothers' stories for our grandkids and grandnieces and nephews. Our family is a little screwed up. My brothers and I are beginning to try and mend things, I think... but it will be my nephews, I believe, who will pass on a hell of a legacy.
And I can be proud of that.
Love,
Crystal
I had to drive to work this morning because I need to go to my doc's office right after work, so I had a CD in that Chris lent me of an interview project that he did with his grandfather. It's very similar, really, to the story-corps project, except that he let his grandfather just talk, for a long, long time.
It was FANTASTIC.
Not done with the CD, but I just love the stories. It's the kind of thing that you just want to hang onto, because it's life, and it's history, and it's the entire world through the eyes of one person who's been there... who can tell you that everything's going to be alright because he knows it will be, and he knows it always HAS been... even through the bad stuff.
I don't know why, but it strikes me as a fantastic legacy, even if it ISN'T my own. I don't know if I'd ever have the inclination to do the same for my family, just because there are so many stories that are unverified and I don't want to have to chase them all down. See, my family likes to TELL stories. ;) Stories that sometimes aren't true.
I would sit down with my grandmother and do some... but she's lost so many of them that I think it would only frustrate her to try and find them again. Gramma Snow is suffering from Alzheimer's. I'm not sure how much longer she has, and I'm not sure how much longer we'll have HER.
Someday, maybe, I'll take down my brothers' stories for our grandkids and grandnieces and nephews. Our family is a little screwed up. My brothers and I are beginning to try and mend things, I think... but it will be my nephews, I believe, who will pass on a hell of a legacy.
And I can be proud of that.
Love,
Crystal
