Wo ist der Shoebox vom vergangenen Jahr? *

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:22:00-0400

Excuse the pseudo German. This is not so much a post, more of a thought which has struck me more than once over the last few years. At home I have a shoebox full of family memorabilia, documents, photos, letters, etc. My sisters have even more such archive material. I spoke to a blogger friend recently and we looked at his photo records of family from the last 100+ years. My point is, what happens now? We all have a huge amount of irreplaceable family and social documents stored on our computers or on servers around the world. Where is that shoebox now, one that future generations can leaf through? The big institutes and concerns have a plan of course, but what about us? Anyone thought about this? Made a Will recently? * The quote comes from Bertold Brecht /Kurt Weill - "Nanna's Lied" "Wo sind die Tränen von gestern abend?
Wo ist die Schnee vom vergangenen Jahr?"
"Where are the tears from yesterday evening?
Where are the snows of yesteryear?"

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Wo ist der Shoebox vom vergangenen Jahr? *