Capture the moments

Here is where technology has come a long way to make it all easier to embrace the ways we can capture the small town and everything that makes it so perfect in either video or in picture. Now is any of this really any better than the old slide show or the old one-step picture. Maybe only because it is viral.
I don't know if that is a great thing and I'm not sure I want to totally embrace it. In fact I'm very glad that the video camera and picture phone didn't exist everywhere. At the same we sure lost a lot of memories isn't that what people will tell you?

How about the memory of the story teller, does he or she need a picture for a video, does that image need adobe photoshop or need to be loaded on the Iphone for all of the world to see? Maybe maybe not, but you know what we still need the storyteller who gives us the run-down of what transpired that to me is worth a million plus images and videos.

My point here is the need for  communication between all aspects of life. Video and pictures cannot capture the reality of the event or the story. Yes they will give your toddlers and family a viable footprint to follow but I will miss many pieces of the puzzles and provide a seemless disconnect that you may not be able to recover without the storyteller.

Plus unless your are true hollywood, please don't tell me you can get everything and all of the emotions and communications of the toddler and his friends on video.  It's a good documentation, but don't rely on it make sure you know the story and make sure you can write it down or relay the story to all of those involved.

Some of the best things in life have been told thru a story and don't forget it. Also remeber in small towns or small circles that stories is remembered and the foot print and viral effect of that story is huge on the memory base of all those that want to continue the story of the journey of the baby that became a toddler who became an adult in a small town where everyone knows not the book, nor the video, but the complete story.

Just some more food for thought on this fine easter.