Legacy Matters

Trying to Remember an Important Day

Beverly Beckham writes
My oldest daughter turned 35 last week and what she wanted most for her birthday was to remember turning 21. "I was in college. I must have gone out. Where did I go? What did I do?"

We sat around the table, family and friends, trying to remember something of her 21st birthday. But none of us could.

You think you don't forget the big moments: birthdays, holidays, milestones. But they slip away, too, like thousands of small moments lived and celebrated, and then forgotten.
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When my daughter turned 21, I didn't write about it, and she didn't write about it, or paste a coaster in a book or preserve it in any way.
And so it came, it went, and it's gone.

Most days are. We live thousands of them and recall just a few. Pictures capture some. And words. And song.

Even better is blogging.  A few minutes can capture a day in words and photos.  I call it legacy blogging for yourself and your family and friends.  Blogging captures the evanescence of your life.  Blogging enriches your life.

I can't think of a better way to capture the highlights of your life as they happen, an adjunct to your memory.  In later years, when you look back to what you wrote, you will see how far you've come and how much is gone, except  for what you wrote and saved.  What you've blogged becomes what you rediscover.  Blogging also helps slow life down. 

For those who want to blog, but who don't want the whole world to know what they writing and thinking, use a password protected blogging service.  Or consider Vox.

Vox is the new blogging service from Six Apart that brought us Moveable Type and Typepad,

Vox is private.  You control who sees your blog by setting privacy filters, allowing only friends or family say.  Even better, you can share video and audio, even import media from YouTube, Flickr, or Photobucket.    For the time being, Vox is free.