What are some of your favorite memories? Where do they come from? Are they moments that you witnessed first-hand? Or are they the ones handed down to you from generations past?
The greatest gift you can give is the gift of remembrance: not just of the story, but of the storyteller themselves, in their own words. That’s why Memories in Writing is the perfect present for your most cherished loved ones. Especially now, with Mother’s and Father’s Day just around the corner, there’s no better time to remind your parents just how much you mean to them.
There’s something exhilarating about recounting memories that were never really yours in the first place. No matter how familiar and beloved the story’s characters are, there’s always something distant and mysterious about them. They’re your aunts and uncles, friends, grandparents, and even your own mother and father.
When you listen to them tell their stories, you become immersed in a world that is both known and unknown. It’s your world, but skewed, shifted, as though you’re looking at it through a prism. Different sights, sounds, thoughts, and feelings etch themselves in your mind—often, you’ll discover things you never noticed before.
You may know the story from memory like the back of your hand… but all of a sudden, when you hear a loved one tell it, it’s like a new experience. Each time, you’re being given a gift, a tiny treasure, that takes you through the looking glass, that lets you see the world through the eyes of the people you love.
Maybe it’s momentous occasions, like the story of when your grandfather proposed to your grandmother. Or maybe it’s the simple things: beautiful, everyday moments like the day your father took you and your siblings skating on the backyard pond. No matter the tale, there’s something precious to be discovered.
Seeing Life From A Different Point of View
Sometimes, trying to capture a memory is like trying to hold a ray of light. It warms everyone in its presence, but its time there is fleeting. You know it can’t stay, but there’s a certain sad beauty in its impermanence.
Even when the storytellers are no longer with us, we continue to cherish them and the memories they shared with us. Those memories are the gifts that now belong to all who can remember them—and the more we remember, the more we can continue to share them.
The Most Precious Gift of All
Memories in Writing is more than just a story: it’s their story, precisely as they would tell it and rich with detail. This product is a simple way to preserve your parents’ memories, crystallizing them into gifts that you can give again and again. These memories are treasures, heirlooms for the next generations. It’s a reminder to all of us that memories are the only things that genuinely last—but only if we make an effort to preserve it.
Choose from one of four distinct packages, or schedule a call, and we’ll help you choose one that’s right for you.
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