Making memories

By Cheryl Springer

I recently became reacquainted with a dear friend I had lost contact with several years ago after she migrated. I have not actually met her so far, but we have been catching up online. After several lengthy emails in which we detailed what we had been up to over the years, we agreed to exchange photographs of ourselves and our children. I have a daughter she’s never seen; she has teenage twin boys, who I had met as babies, and a ‘tween’ daughter born after we’d lost touch.

As I scrolled through ‘My Pictures’ folder on the computer, I marvelled at how easy it has become to do this: store, save and share memories using the available technology. Think of it, there must be trillions of photographs in cyberspace – posted on websites, blogs, emails – all made possible through digital technology.