Visual Blog
Adventures vs Work – Sharing memories
We recently finished a story about a fellow who died far too young at 52, but holy smokes had he lived a full and adventurous life! The final book is 132 pages long full of sharing memories and is divided into 9 chapters. Like most life stories, it starts with the...
Have you heard of Nature Bathing?
It’s a practise in Japan called shinrin-yoku. At its core, Nature Bathing is about fully being in nature - absorbing or bathing in the atmosphere through your senses. Opening up to the sight, smells, sound, taste and touch of the forest. That means unplugging...
Travel Journal – A fantastic and fun way to keep the memory alive
Do you love to travel? I certainly do. How do you remember the places you see and the experiences you have? Now I suspect you or someone you travel with take lots of photos. Digital cameras and smart phones give us the ability to be completely snap happy. I know I...
What landscape do you carry in your memory?
“There are places I remember, all my life though some have changed.” This Beatles song really hits the mark because we all carry places and landscapes in our memory bank. Preserving memories like these are my passion. For some...
Creating a Visual Story with Your Cherished Memories
Do you agree with this quote? I sure do. Just think about how limiting our conversations would be without storytelling and cherished memories being a central part of the narrative. Memories bind us to who we are and where we are now in life. And yes, some memories do...
How Did You Meet Your True Love
Collecting memories over the years I have found the question "how did you meet your true love" always evokes precious stories. I've also noticed that when we meet a couple we admire, a favourite question is ‘how did you two meet’? Why not take that question home and...
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
This sketch is a classic example of a picture worth a thousand words. In 1974 a UN base was established in the Golan Heights, a dynamic part of the Middle East. When working on a life story recently I heard that in order to get a beer at the canteen you had to check...
The Most Common Sentence I Hear
Do you ever wish you could go back and do something differently? Without fail, every week someone says to me, “My (mother, father, aunt, uncle, sister, brother, cousin...), was the one full of family stories but now they’re gone. I wish we had collected their...
How To Be Unforgettable?
Okay to be honest, this is a tough topic. The thing is that we are all going to lose someone we love - including ourselves. That is a very sad reality. It made me think - how do you be unforgettable when the inevitable happens? I know I want my Celebration of Life to...
Creating Memories in Nature
I’m excited to be off on a course this week at one of my favourite places, Yellow Point Lodge. I usually go to YPL to recharge my batteries and this will be no different except that I will be in a course learning about all the flora and fauna that inhabit this...
