The power to recall Memories With Photos

My youngest son, Briggs, has a love of music. Even though he is only 11 years old he loves music from all eras and genres. The other night he randomly put on a Beatles playlist on Spotify and just let it play. I quickly began to sing along. Memories of my childhood began coming back to me. Happy ones.

 My mother was born in Great Britain. She immigrated to the United States when she was Briggs's age. The Beatles become a thing very soon thereafter and of course like every other girl, she was smitten. 

That love for the Beatles, especially Paul McCartney, carried over the years all the way to my childhood. Watching  the movies a “Hard Day's Night” or “Help” and having a cassette tape of any of their albums playing throughout the house often. And even when I was in college my family all went to see Paul in concert in Las Vegas.

As the hours went by and that same playlist Briggs put on kept playing I was able to sing along to literally every single song. I haven't listened to the Beatles for ages. Like decades. 

Brains are amazing. All it took was hearing music from my past to bring up memories and feelings instantly. That music was tucked away and just needed to be dusted off a little for it to be front and center again like it was when my mom and I would sing and dance to it on our tiny living room of our tiny house in Clovis, California. Me a 11 year old girl like my son is now.

Memories are amazing but can stay hidden unless there is a map to finding them again. 

I have talked about this before but I'm going to preach the power of photographs again. Having those images as a map to our past selves, our children when they were younger, our family as it was when the shutter went off is worth so much more than any monetary amount.

I know getting professional pictures taken can be a challenge, but I do everything I can to make it as easy as possible for every one of my clients. 

 I know you don't love the way you look in the mirror right now, but do you think your kids really care about that or that you were in the photo with them?

I know there are other things to spend your money on, but will those Jordan's your kid is dying to have going to truly last like pictures do?

I know that finding time to get pictures taken requires some shifting of schedules, but it's only for an hour. 

There are a million reasons not too, but there is one reason that trumps them all.

Your memories. 

I want you to have that beautiful map to your past just like listening to the Beatles was for me. Easy, lovely, and oh so powerful.