Here's another kind of warning from Robert Ragan's E-zine....how many of us still don't heed the message? Diane T. mzplum_2000@yahoo.com Strangers in the Box by Pam Harazim >From article in Robert Ragan's TREASURE MAPS Genealogy E-zine "In 1997, I authored the poem titled, 'Strangers in the Box'. I originally wrote the poem when my mother had dementia, and I realized that the stories she loved to tell me about her youth and her family were locked inside her, and I didn't remember them like I was so sure I always would. Hence, the 'box of strangers'." STRANGERS IN THE BOX Come, look with me inside this drawer, In this box I've often seen, At the pictures, black and white, Faces proud, still, serene. I wish I knew the people, These strangers in the box, Their names and all their memories Are lost among my socks. I wonder what their lives were like. How did they spend their days? What about their special times? I'll never know their ways. If only someone had taken time To tell who, what, where, when, These faces of my heritage Would come to life again. Could this become the fate Of the pictures we take today? The faces and the memories Someday to be tossed away? Make time to save your pictures, Seize the opportunity when it knocks, Or someday you and yours could be The strangers in the box. (Pam Harazim, East Hampton, CT) Copyright 1997 by Pamela A. Harazim. All Rights Reserved. May be used in unchanged form for non-commercial purposes if accompanied by this copyright message. ***** I'm sure we all get the message, but how many of us will act on it?......Diane --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!