re: Seeing yourself in old home movies..

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Digitizing a huge batch of video you haven't seen in decades and alot you've forgotten about is a gut check unlike any other when you first hit "play".

I was sobbing like a baby when I got back my movies. Just had to be alone the first time I watched them through because the emotions you didn't know you even had surfaced with a vengeance.

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Yep. My Grandmother, who was no less important than my Grandfather - but you know how loved Grandfathers are to the younger version of you - was also in so many of them. You never forget what their voices sounded like. I think I've watched 10-15 times since.

Then I started paying attention to other things like the house itself. A lot of the Christmas ones were at my Grandfather's house. Seeing the inside of it and how things were arranged brought back so much that memory didn't store. My daughter saw some of the pictures/paintings and then went and found them in my house.

Out of all the dogs I've had over the years, my favorite of all was on there. Another dusty room moment.

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Seeing the inside of it and how things were arranged brought back so much that memory didn't store. My daughter saw some of the pictures/paintings and then went and found them in my house.

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I play that game too. Amazing how many of those things have followed me 60+ years on.

That's the tangible part of the connection and the time machine that proves it was real.

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Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.

Don Draper

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One of the best moments from that show.