Grey-Bruce Boomers Winter2023
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y Arlen Wiebe<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
Family websites – It’s becoming increasingly<br />
popular for families to create a website to preserve<br />
and share family stories and information. These<br />
sites might include a family tree, genealogy, photos,<br />
letters, stories, videos, and sound files.<br />
Unique products – Some people enjoy being<br />
creative with their precious memories. A special<br />
quilt could be made of valued fabrics or decorations.<br />
Inspiring images and music can lead to a painting,<br />
drawing, mural, collage, memory box or multimedia<br />
presentation. Valued recipes could be collected into<br />
a family cookbook. What else could you imagine?<br />
Tell your story<br />
People now recognize that reminiscence and life<br />
review are important life processes. Working through<br />
our memories to find patterns, meaning, and values<br />
are key to a fully examined life. Many of us think<br />
about interviewing our aging family members but<br />
put it off until later. When we finally find the time, it<br />
may be too late – the loved one could be too frail to<br />
tell their stories, or their memories may have faded.<br />
Worse, they may have already passed away.<br />
If recording your own stories or that of a loved one is<br />
important to you, take the first step today to making<br />
it happen!<br />
Arlen Wiebe is a personal historian, writer, musician, and<br />
teacher living in Owen Sound. He enjoys helping people find<br />
meaning and purpose through writing their life stories, memoirs,<br />
and family history. You can learn more about him at yourlife-stories.ca.<br />
You can contact him by email at arlen.wiebe.<br />
writer@gmail.com or by text/phone at 226-668-3352.<br />
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