Digital Memories

One day, ancestors will wonder something and be able to find the answers they crave. With today's media hoarding and the digitization of records, information will be there to exam. It is such a shame that we do not know the stories of our ancestors and how they lived. We are piecing it together as a society, but as of now, it is  just fragments and speculation. The stories my Oma used to tell me, was of a time that was beginning to record the events of the day. Today everyone has their phones out recording life. I have been that person taking pictures of life. Can't even imagine what I would have done had I had a Phone that took digital photos. Movies! You could have your memories forever. The way someone spoke. The things I remember only in my mind.

Someone recorded his Grandmother cooking "her" meals and telling everyone how she made her family favorites all the while telling stories of her past. I also found one called Cooking with Oma and she cooked some Goulash that made me think of my own childhood. My Oma was the cook in the family. She was a typical German cook. Minus the spaetzel.  Somehow we didn't have that. We had boiled potatoes as our main side dish with meals. Anyway, this woman sounds very much like my Oma and I tear up anytime I think about it when I watch it. The other videos are called Cooking with Clara. Cooking during the Depression.

Cooking with Clara

https://youtu.be/DuMkW35BwK8

The videos of Cooking with Oma

https://youtu.be/hpHY0t7dYRE?list=PLwfp9p93a6TRr6No0sLO4F5vuLc7e62ih

(Apparently, these links do not work, but if you right click it says something to the effect, Go To and viola!)

And here is a picture of My Oma making dinner. She would hate that I am sharing this photo on the internet. It is not her best look, but of course I love it. We had such a neat kitchen back then. I wasn't crazy about all the brown in it, but for the time it was Nifty. Okay, I guess I'm okay with it now. It was certainly better than the Avocado  or Gold appliances back then.
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