Biographies And Scrapbooking : Our Attempts To Capture The Past
At first glance you may think of biographies and scrapbooking as 2 very different things but as a fan of both I know what drives my passion for both. Biographies are the accounts of someone’s life, though usually they are in written form in biography books they can be spoken word versions like those on audio books. Some can even be made into film. How many Elvis Presley movies have you seen? They are usually authorized by the subject of the book and is for the most part backed up by some form of documentation. The unauthorized ones don’t necessarily have back up and may at times appear to be works of fiction.
Scrapbooking is the gathering of pictures, news stories and written accounts of significant occasions in one’s life. When people think of scrap books they may think of their children since many mothers are given scrapbooking albums to use for documenting their child’s first year of life. Those memories are often the most special and usually the most fleeting.
So as you can see biographies and scrapbooking have to do with preserving our memories. If you look...