This Podcast episode dives into a story first about why I find it so necessary to document stories and the method I use to triage how I organize my photos. Stay tuned to the end where I introduce our upcoming workshop teaching How to Organize Photos on Your iPhone and beyond.
Now for the Story
When I was in my teens, my siblings and I bought our mom a Weeping Cherry Tree for Mother’s Day.
We planted it in our backyard of our childhood home as my mom established herself as a single parent.
That tree has grown from a tiny sapling to larger than the 3 story home we grew up in!
We have since moved away from that home, but continue to check in on it anytime we’re in town!
To us, Weeping Cherry trees symbolize home, love, stability and growth.
When my husband and I bought our first home (with a lawn), my grandfather gifted us a weeping cherry tree as a housewarming present.
I dug the hole with my own two hands (and feet) and proudly stuck it in the ground, just like my mom did all those years before.
In January 2020, my grandfather passed away.
I have loved watching this tree grow and feel my grandfather’s love when I pass it in my yard.
Flash forward to today.
I was checking my garden and heard the leaves start falling in the wind. I looked over and watched as the sun sparkled on the leaves that were slowly blowing off the tree and sprinkling down onto the weeping cherry tree from my grandpa.
My breath left my body for a minute as I realized I could feel him and his love surrounding me in that moment.
It was then that I realized this one thing that has transformed my perspective on documenting life and organizing photos:
Grief
It has made me more sentimental.
I now find beauty in the mundane.
I notice things most people overlook.
In small moments all around me, I feel connected to loved ones who have passed on.
It’s the gift of grief: I call the “rainbow effect.”🌈
While grief tears holes in your heart, it also has the power to mend.
In my 30s, as our family grew, we lost several significant loved ones.
As a photographer and passionate family historian, I was tasked with creating memorial slideshows and inherited boxes of sentimental items over the years.
I quickly learned that photos and mementos without stories lose significant meaning when passed on.
If we don’t curate what we leave behind, we’re just passing on meaningless gigabytes of data that will burden the next generation.
We’ll never be able to organize ALL the photos we’ve taken.
That’s why I’ve learned to focus on making sure the ones that matter are easy to find and have their stories captured.
❤️ Want to learn how to organize photos on your iphone with me?
Join me in my live No Bullsh*t Photo Organization Workshop starting on 10/8.
What is it?
This 3 part live virtual workshop series is the CliffsNotes version for photo organization & backup. —designed to give you exactly what you need, without the fluff, so you can safeguard and organize your digital memories quickly and easily.
Learn How to:
📁 Create an easy-to-use system that lets you find your favorite photos in seconds.
☁️ Back up your photos to the cloud, no tech confusion required.
💾 Use an external hard drive for double security—so your memories are always safe.
⏱️ Make a photo book using favorite photos from this year in under an hour!
This is a 3 day hands on series with 10-30 minutes of working time to make tangible progress on your goals. We’ll be doing this together.
And yes… there will be prizes 🎉
Join the Waitlist by Monday 9/23/24 at 11:59PM EST to get access to early bird pricing discount (emailed on 9/24/24 to waitlist subscribers)
So excited to bring this together and can’t wait to see you inside!
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