Ornaments
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
There are many ways to capture a piece of action or a special moment. It can be very involved like putting together a scrapbook unfolding the changes over a period of time; or, it can be as simple as taking a snap shot of blowing out a birthday candle freezed the atmosphere and the facial expression of that moment.
Beside scrapbooks and photos, Ornaments are an unique way to capture a part of your history. An Ornament is memories molded into a physical form that you can touch and see. It opens up a door to the memory lane. It is a physical hook into your sea of memories. When I hold an ornament that my wife and I specially bought or made, I was kind of transported back to the events of that year, the ups and the down, the good and the bad, the exciting days and the mudane ones. All mingled into the ornament in my hand. My wife and I would spend the next ten to fifteen minutes talking about what had transpired that year. Sometime it moved us to dig out photos or other things to show what happened back than.
