Rose can still picture the rug in her childhood living room. Not because she remembers it, but because her mom took a photo and printed it.
Her mom did that a lot. She took pictures of everything. Not just birthday parties and momentous occasions, but the little things too. The toys Rose loved most, the kitchen wallpaper she’d forgotten existed, the way the light hit the floor in the afternoons. And then she’d slide the prints into photo albums, one by one.
“I flip through the albums now and feel so grateful,” Rose said. “There are moments I never would’ve remembered on my own.”
It’s one of the reasons she prints her own photos now.
Earlier this year, Rose started setting aside time each month to choose ten photos from her camera roll. Not necessarily the most beautiful or impressive—just the ones that felt like her life at the time. Friends on the porch, her dog asleep on the couch, maybe a home-cooked dinner she was proud of.
So when her phone broke a few months later and every photo disappeared, she didn’t feel as gutted as she expected.
“I wasn’t as disappointed,” she said, “because I had already started printing my photos.”
Rose is a photographer, so she’s always understood the value of an image. But printing them this way felt different.
It was less about polish and great composition or perfect editing, and more about simply remembering what it felt like to be there.
When the prints arrive, she enjoys looking through them, then she tucks them into her Mootsh Box. No big project. Just a small practice that helps her stay close to what matters.
Like the way her mom’s albums still connect her to the past.
Now, she’s building something similar.
Maybe someday, someone else will flip through them and feel the same kind of gratitude she felt growing up.
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