How digitizing home movies helped me create new family moments from old memories

3 weeks ago 2

Hiko with his family as a baby in a tv screen

When I lost my mother last year, I had a lot of her stuff to go through. It’s a painful rite of passage, especially as an only child, combing through all of the things a parent leaves behind. Among many of her cherished possessions was a storage box filled with nearly 50 videotapes, mostly documenting my childhood and adolescence.

I’ve talked about my grief journey before and how I escaped into nostalgia to cope with my loss, but now, going through these home videos is a whole other kind of nostalgic trip. As I revisit my past, certain questions and thoughts buzz around my head (perhaps it’s the residual anxiety t...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/digitizing-vhs-tapes-for-the-holidays

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