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This Week’s Reflection …

This week I opened a box I hadn’t touched in years and found a collection of forgotten photographs. Lifting them out of the box one by one, each image elicited memories powerful and poignant. 

Parents, children, siblings, nieces, friends, and now grandchildren - with every picture, a piece of the past unfolded.  An Easter morning, sixty years ago, surrounded by siblings and cousins in a place that feels as distant as a dream. My son as a bright-eyed child, and then, years later, a photo of me holding his son in my arms.

There was Charles, whose absence still feels fresh and heavy. My brother, a familiar face I haven’t seen in over a decade. And my parents, gone so long now, captured on a sunlit beach. Their smiles are as warm and alive as the waves behind them. 

Each photo carried me back to a moment that shaped me - snapshots of joy, love, or loss. The memories were a mix of sweetness and ache, like the strains of a favorite song playing softly in the distance. That familiar music of memory pulls us into the places and times we carry in our hearts, even as the years carry us further away.

A long-forgotten collection of photos in a box reminds me of who I am, where I’ve been, and what truly matters. 

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