YOUR MEMORIES ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT THEY USED TO BE.
This maybe a strange notion at first but not to Moonlights, the newly created Canberra business that is honoring peoples lives by bringing their memories to life. Read on and see if you can relate to what Moonlights is offering the people of Canberra and region.
Despite a greater awareness and trend toward a slower life, many of us still lead lives that do not allow us to just – be. We don’t engage with others and ourselves in a way that encourages reflection and sharing on a level our parents and their parents experienced.
Even if we do have time, our response to improving technologies makes us think we don’t. Many of us succumbing to the shallow, yet powerful, habits of emails, mobiles and the internet.
These changes of lifestyle, and the busyness of the mind that goes with them, directly impact the amount of emotional time given to decisions on how to honour our past, our families and our passions.
Our memories deserve, now more than ever, to be honoured in more creative, engaging ways. Digital technology allows us to do so.
Creative audio visual stories of our lives and passions evoke deep emotions that may not usually be expressed or felt. The images, music and sound can be mixed in beautiful ways to reflect the person or people being celebrated.
See Slideshow Alley ( Don’s HR Holden)
In an age of increasing complexity we seek more simplicity.
Below are two examples that reflect the increasing importance of honoring our memories now.
Many of us have spent our school holidays and our children’s at Grandparents houses. They provide some of the best memories for many of us and a part of us expect the home to always be there.
With greater pressures on finances and the urgency surrounding real estate, houses can be sold within days of a Grandparents death.
Often, if there is a remaining partner, they will move to another smaller home. Many of the household items are sold off, given away or kept in the family. Still, these ‘ things’, these symbols of life are no longer in the environment that they were when the memories were created.
The opportunity for reflection whilst walking around the garden you so fondly remember playing in has gone. You can’t show your children their Great Grandparents home anymore, and as great as your shared stories are, they would surely be enhanced if you had a visual record. Not just the people photos, but the photos of the objects, symbols and scenes that showed your Grandma’s life in its best light.
The same goes for our farmers. A generational farm can be gone in days due to bank foreclosures or a drought forcing a very tired family to move on with a mood of high stress and sadness. All of a sudden it’s gone. What’s left are the oral stories and mostly people pictures of friends and family enjoying there time there.
The rusty tractor is left in the paddock, the vege patch goes to seed, the favourite tree that was thought to be there forever cut down. And on it goes.
The farming family and extended family and friends deserve to be able reflect later in their lives on the life they once had there and how important it was to who they are now.
These are just two examples that highlight how the changing world can change the way we react to our own lives. Whilst they have a sadder edge to them the opportunity exists to celebrate more of what once was.
Many other aspects of our lives can be honoured in more creative and mindful ways. Here are a few examples:
• A year of sporting highlights for your 8 year old.
• A day in the life of……
• A chronicling of your house being built.
• A child’s birthday party ( so you can enjoy it later )
• A representative club trip away. For you or the whole group/team. ( See how amateur photos can be given new life in a at Slideshow Alley (Canberra Indoor Cricket Rep match in QLD )
• The old holden. ( OK or Ford )
• A chronicling of a child from birth to ? age.
• The growing garden slide show sent to the owners who are posted overseas.
These are just a few of many, many ways of honouring our lives.
Recently a Canberra based business, Moonlights, owned and operated by Dane Tannahill, was created to specialise in creating custom DVD slide shows for the people of Canberra and region.
The idea came from a slide show he did of his Nana’s home on the day of her passing 4 years ago. On that day Dane found himself paying attention to things he previously hadn’t’t noticed. Now they did matter. He took photos of as many objects and scenes as he could.
Thankfully, all of Danes family can now look back fondly at their Nana’s home and share stories with great grandchildren as the images and music flow back to their hearts. You can view the original slide show by clicking here.
Moonlights is about bringing your memories to life in a sensitive, engaging and authentic manner.
If you can relate to this article then please visit the Moonlights website now to see how you and those you love can be honoured, now and forever.
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