It’s summer….and, for some, that means kids are at home or around more often. The pace of summer can be a great time to develop new skills, and studies show that storytelling can benefit a child’s language development, communication, empathy, coping, and meaning-making skills. The summer season (or any season!) is also a great time […]
“Listen More Closely To Their Stories”
I am in the process of losing my only remaining grandparent. To me, it’s a lot like losing some of the last remaining bits of my childhood. The memories of spending time at a grandparent’s home, with all the different and old-fashioned ways they lived start to fade into the recesses of our minds. My […]
More FAQs
We highlight some basic FAQs about our Legacy Film on our website, but here are some other common questions and statements we often hear when speaking about our work: My loved one is pretty shy (especially when in front of a camera). How will you put them at ease? From beginning to end, we are […]
Capturing Your Loved One on Film
Technology has made the ability to film loved ones and record their stories more accessible than ever before. Video offers the chance to capture a warmth and familiarity that written memories aren’t able to match. While it’s easy to simply pick up a phone and hit record, there are a number of helpful tips to […]
Unexpected Gifts
Each Legacy Film project that we complete at Sacred Stories is another reminder of the incredible power that stories have to change lives. When I first started this business, I thought of the finished Legacy Film product as the most important outcome from this work – the video recording of life stories for individuals and […]
Ham for the Holidays
I am fascinated by poets and always have been. They seem to effortlessly paint a reality with the stroke of a word. An award-winning poet named Muriel Ruykeser once said, “The world is not made of atoms. It is made of stories.” When Whitney asked me to write a blog for Sacred Stories, one of […]