tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6918105604270007470.post8642130852005331193..comments2023-10-09T15:47:14.355-04:00Comments on And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?: More Roger-free ZonesStarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241931590875029855noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6918105604270007470.post-47628398538033724132009-07-20T12:21:39.380-04:002009-07-20T12:21:39.380-04:00I moved those pictures, too.
For what it's wo...I moved those pictures, too.<br /><br />For what it's worth, I think a date should be understanding when you have a million photographs around the place, but at the same time it just didn't feel right. Not really.<br /><br />So I moved them. I know where they are -- in easy reach, but no longer on the fireplace.<br /><br />I'd like to say that it didn't feel like a betrayal, but naturally it did. Big time. But a necessary one, if life was going to move forwards.<br /><br />It has. But of course, I would have done anything to make life different, so that it didn't have to.<br /><br />That's tough work, well done. Spirits up.Roadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06701468219259761540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6918105604270007470.post-79441310849043705962009-07-08T17:41:25.032-04:002009-07-08T17:41:25.032-04:00It helped me immensely to move, to have different ...It helped me immensely to move, to have different things around me instead of being surrounded by a shrine to my former life. But as I moved--twice, actually--some things still stay, and some have become more important to me as time goes on. Some of the pictures are the same as before, but most are different...or at least they're rearranged or reclassified differently.<br /><br />I took my favorite photos (or some/many of them) of Charley and put them all in one SUPER larger collage frame at my house in Sandy, a while after I moved into it. It helped to have the photos still up and out somewhere, but on a side hallway that I didn't see that often and not in a Charley Shrine fashion. I haven't quite decided what to do with it now, in the new house, though; it's too big for my wall space and I don't really want it in the main rooms...just feels odd to have it too prominently. <br /><br />I kept thinking I should do something with all the pictures I have. Maybe make a nice scrapbook (although I am NOT a scrapping kind of person), or at least take the effort to combine them into a mundane photo album. SOMETHING. But I don't. Not worth the effort, and somehow it's more comforting to be to thumb through a stack of photos and not really know what order or direction they'll be in or what one comes next. The randomness of it appeals to me these days, I guess. But for now it's enough to simply know that they're somewhere and (loosely) in one place when I need them (which isn't often). <br /><br />Then again, I have all the photos from the last 4-6 years on my computer too as my screen saver, so I "see" pictures of him all the time. So apparently lazy/random mode really IS my choice du jour. ;o)<br /><br />Hugs!Candicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11637366044613952294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6918105604270007470.post-73963757374245352462009-06-30T18:12:05.498-04:002009-06-30T18:12:05.498-04:00Okay, here is my opinion, FWIW: I think you should...Okay, here is my opinion, FWIW: I think you should make a scrapbook out of all those pictures. There's this belief out there that scrapbooks should be only for happy times and show only happy pictures, but I believe that they should be a window into your life. It's okay to scrapbook about hard, sad times - don't feel pressured to make it all sunshine and rainbows. My mom was a huge scrapbooker when it was popular, and she actually had a whole magazine on "tribute scrapbooking." These may help:<br />http://tinyurl.com/mqxrdm<br />http://tinyurl.com/mltyu7Jackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13224369560917076336noreply@blogger.com