Today we visited my aunt and uncle, my uncle had his 8mm films of our family get togethers, his kids, us kids, etc.put onto VHS years ago and now will be going to DVD, but it was fun to see the old time shows, all having good times up to our recent gatherings. I knew when my dad would show up in these I feared I'd lose it big time but I contained myself, but my heart, my arms just wanted to reach into the image on the screen, pulling him out of it and have him here with us, my grandfather was sitting next to him, he too is deceased and as we looked on we realized almost all have passed on since those family movies, so very sad.
A thought, a feeling came over me, and I thought "if only there was a way to make them come to life again, as I watch the past right before my
eyes. . . for now I guess that is the closest we'll ever get.
Seeing dad on film tonite, in a sad but happy way made me feel he was right in the room, watching him laughing and joking around with the others at one of our family get togethers
again, more than half those people are now all deceased, but tonite they were there for that brief moment in time.

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SOLON