Article: Scrapbooking As A Lifeline
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Scrapbooking As A Lifeline
Sometimes memories are all you have.
My family is at a difficult stage of life right now, as my 80-year-old mother is showing increasing levels of dementia. She needs to be reminded where she is, what we?re doing, whom she is with?even what she likes?and she?s fond of telling tales from long, long ago?sometimes repeating the same stories ten minutes later.
I am especially grateful now that she had let me start scrapbooking her huge stash of family pictures over a year ago. The stories and details she shared with me as we sorted the pictures at that time have become so much more than just journaling facts for our family history. As she recedes into her long-term memories, the information she shared while still in the world of reality have given me a way to rela...
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