Fragments of Life

[davywavy]

I think that there are few things more poignant than lost photographs. Lying in the street earlier, a stack of pictures, obviously dropped by a burglar or thief who had no use for them.
Seeing photos abandoned like that always tweaks my heart; they’re fragments of somebody’s life – possibly the only record they have of life’s happy moments, scattered and meaningless and of no value to anybody but the original owner.
It always strikes me as unutterably sad that these memories have been lost.

Comments

Re: Erk.

[applez.livejournal.com]

Dave - what you said, very true and poigniant.

Blue_Cat - donate them to a museum, especially the cultural sort. I can't think of anything more sorrowful (and fairly high on the twisted scale) than hawking those pics in the local market (for tourist procurement).

Re: Erk.

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

Sigh. It would be better than binning the photos - and probably the paintings as well.

I am trying to convince Dad to ask if his sisters kids might be interested in the portraits - he says not as they are not Packard's. But they are of the genetic line at least (sorry, My Bro & I were adopted so part of me thinks we arn't "real" Packards - and I'm married now.)

We shall see - museum is a good idea.