PicturePerfect
Photographs evoke memories and emotions. One is overcome by nostalgia, joy and even sorrow as one turns the pages of an old family album, Today pictures have gone digital but they evoke the same memories and emotions that photographs in an old-fashioned album would. Leafing through albums of yore - those thick books with coarse black pages, and their four-cornered gummed photograph holders that preserve memorable moments and places can tear you up. When a cousin dug out a few of these old photo albums and posted old pictures of our grandparents and parents on social media I was a bundle of mixed emotions. My maternal grandparents staring out of the picture reminds me of the gentle and pious folk that they were having left behind a legacy of love and kindness. 'Nana' standing among the pigs that she reared and another one of my uncle chasing a pig for my parents' wedding feast filled me with immense joy and laughter. My pare...