Wander project at what cost memories…

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1. Memories are what we are all left with. What we do with them is up to us.

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   • Share them – Share them! Sorry I couldn’t help that.

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     • No need to be sorry, I agree.

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       • sorry was for the snotty comment, trying to be a better person…

2. Nice photos, looks a good break from stress.

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   • Thanks! I can’t reply to comments made on each picture (a virily bug). But you made me laugh about having a BBQ there. I suspect the easy answer is no.

     • Ohh no, when we went to a lake in Utena, Lithuania, we had a barbecue there. It was amazing.

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       • Little Seneca lake is actually a drinking water lake so they don’t want a lot of things in the water. There are many other places you can have a cookout.

         • How nice, then this where the “pure water” is coming from, remember that trend?

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       • Pure water is still a trend. At least it is in the US right now, post Flint Michigan’s water crisis all of us worry about water again.

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         • Until now I have heard about it months ago. The pure or raw water coming from the stream and so on.. and this water is quite expensive

3. Memories aren’t an exhaustible resource, quite the opposite; they gain value when shared!

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   • Very true Alex, very true. I know that when my father died for a time I was angry with him. He left me 30,000 slides of which people had seen may 4000 or less. I didn’t have stories to go with some of those slides. That was a huge driver for the family history project. I understand why now, he was a perfectionist and felt the pictures were not worth. So I share them all now, including the horrible pictures I often end up with!

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     • They are not horrible pictures to you or were they to your Dad, they are part of those special memories.

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       • I think my father would argue that they were, in fact, bad pictures (it was why he didn’t share them. He left me a note in one of the slide boxes that said: “Throw out most of these they are bad.” Most were not bad.

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     • Possibly he feared his audience wouldn’t want to sit through 30,000 slides?

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       • Not all at once of course, but over the course of more than 40 years?

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         • The choice is yours now

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       • All at once it is 🙂
         I’ve been sharing around 80 give or take a week. Sometimes a little more sometimes a little less. Sadly we also generate between 40 and 50 new pictures a week so I’ve made little headway.

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         • half new / half old sounds like a good balance to me

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4. Lovely post! Great photos!

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   • THank you, I am really glad you enjoyed the piece!