from The Attic Lost Photos

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Breathtaking Pictures from the Hours of Long Ago Light a Particular Present</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As we age... the past contained within memories can fade and become dark and muted. But old photos preserve a personal history and provide a view through which to perceive a family's journey and our own life. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>from THE ATTIC <em>lost photos</em></strong><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>..</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. the author shares some moments of her snapshot archive that are a personal visual memoir.  We pass through the pictorial lens as time unfolds and illuminates the moving images that were preserved on so many yesterdays. There is a sense of mystery and even poignancy for the contemporary viewer. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Readers may be inspired to dust off their own old albums and be reminded of their own ancestor's layered visual and creative </span><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>odysseys</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. It is with this shared radiant experience through which we can all emotionally connect. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The photos are categorized in seven categories. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The opening pictures are of my parents and their friends. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They were taken over eighty years ago during a road trip. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I am gobsmacked at how they were inspired to create for photos</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>bold layers of humor around discovered remains and </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I am amused at how they continued a naked theme </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in several snapshots as the years passed. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It is wonderful to connect to a personal history and see family </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I never knew in a very old photo and </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>to remember relatives in pictures and </span><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>reminisce </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>about those mentioned </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in an old faded letter written almost a century ago. </span></p>