kvetching up

Entry 1 Long ago, it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you         -from Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel Leiney at S. Lucile Street, June 2004. From the time that we got our first digital camera, until the kids were in their early teens, I took more digital snaps than most can gauge. Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of images and videos exist that no one has ever seen. I would take the pictures and videos and transfer them to a hard drive, but the vast majority went unreviewed, unseen. Not a person. My kids have never asked to see them, seemingly happy with the several thousand pictures that Jenny and I posted on Facebook, or that I forward to them from some cloud photo repository . Thinking about it, snapping all those images was really an attempt by me to stop time, to capture in a bottle every fleeting moment of the kids childhood, of our family life. Given the futility, maybe mama should have taken my Ko...