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• 1 Gail Desler // Mar 17, 2009 at 7:51 am

  This is a gem, Bob. Switching from voice over stills to video and then adding the phone conversation really moves your story along.

  I remember in recent years showing a video camera to my elderly father, who commented that my daughter’s generation was likely to be a generation of inane memories…Not if they watch The Wind Blows It All Away.

  Heading off to find that shoebox and call my brother.

• 2 Deborah Barrows // Mar 17, 2009 at 8:15 am

  Dear Bob,

  Your creativity blows me away! I loved watching this movie. For the past year, I’ve been trying to decide what to do with the boxes of family albums and slides that sit in my garage and thought I should divide them up. But after watching this, I’m thinking maybe I shouldn’t. You’ve given me something to think about!

  Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and pictures.

  Deb

• 3 Nancy // Mar 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

  Well first, thank you for sharing. It’s so powerful, the pacing, music and your voice really allowed me to sink into the subject and reflect while taking it in. I was also thinking about it on several levels, such as family dispersal and recording our lives in old and newer ways and the benefits and downfalls of each. Thank you again for sharing this!

• 4 Steven Kimmi // Mar 17, 2009 at 2:04 pm

  I am moved to tears. Having lost my mother in my early 20s and going through the fallout of being the youngest (having less pictures) and recieving the least of the grand picture disbursement, this hits very class to home.

  Also, my wife and her sibling are planning an Anniversary party for their parents and they are in the process of reorganizing of all the family photos. There are piles of old empty albums lying on our basement floor. Watching this, I feel a slight sense of regret. And I think they would to, there is so much nostalgia tied up in more than just the pictures.

  But as you leave us all thinking, in this time of technology, do we take that for granted, considering quantity better than quality.

  Each year, as a Christmas present to my family, I compile all our family pictures, and weed out many, to create a slideshow. This was year three, and we watched all three this Christmas.

  I am pretty sure that I could sit here and type all day long…thank you for the good cry Bob, I owe you one.

• 5 DEB DAIGLE // Mar 18, 2009 at 7:25 am

  BOB~ you are AMAZING.
  I LOVE IT !
  I love your voice ! …I love the beautiful tribute you did for our MOM. The picture of her was BREATH TAKING ! ( by the way I want a copy of that !) I LOVE YOU and ALL of your talents. Thank you for being you ! YOU ARE MY MENTOR…my HERO…MY BEST FRIEND !
  WHAT A GIFT you have just given our whole family! I am so HONORED to have you in my life! I LOVE YOU BRO! LOVE ~ DEB

• 6 Mike Arsenault // Mar 18, 2009 at 8:58 am

  Great job on this digital story Bob. I like your comment about how you take significantly more photos now that you take digital pictures. I often use this analogy with teaching. Your behaviors have changed due to the technology changing (film to digital images). How do teachers change their behaviors due to the technology changing?

• 7 John Tanner // Mar 20, 2009 at 11:41 am

  Just a wonderful tribute Bob. Well done. And I would be willing to wager if you mom were still with us she would say ” Bob stop talking about it and do it”, I think you can create a new Humpty Dumpty for your children….

• 8 Jo Fothergill // Mar 20, 2009 at 3:24 pm

  What a fantastic story.

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