Blogging Memory Cards
During the spring of 1998, me, well into my first year living in downtown Philadelphia, I found myself bored one rainy Saturday afternoon. Now I’d just purchased two or three file card boxes and several packs of 5” X 7” blue index cards to put in them. At the time of the purchase, I really had no idea what I’d use them for; they just look cool, being so blue and all. So, there they sat on my work desk, in my living room-office. The thought occurred then, that I should think about my list of life experiences and write a little about each one, on each card. I’d put the date the event happened on the top line, and then underneath, write tid bit details about it. For dates where more than one significant experience occurred, I’d either use a separate card for each of them though they’d each have the same date. Or, if there wasn’t much to say about each experience other than the mere fact that I experienced it, I’d write about them all on one card.
Well, this project went on for several weeks; memories of things like when Dad died, when I got my first kiss from a girl, and so on, inundated me, and I wrote a little about each and every one on other rainy days, or when I just didn’t feel like going out skating, dancing, or book browsing.
Some three years later, when I switched to audio cassettes to catalog my life, and got away from the cards, I had accumulated perhaps a hundred file cards of memories and experiences. So I thought I’d make a post for each card here in this blog, because they are, after all, one significant part of my, as I’m realizing it has been now, extensive life journal. So I’ll track this effort in the comments below.