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One of my good Facebook friends asked me yesterday for a synopsis of Photographs of the Heart. I thought I would share that with all of you. I have included the introduction to the book so that you can judge for yourself if this is a book that might interest you. I hope it will, and if you decide to order a copy from lulu.com please get back to me and leave me a comment, or send me a message. I would enjoy hearing from you whether your comments are good, bad or indifferent. Criticism can be given and taken in several different ways, I believe that its what we do with criticism that really matters. After all, shouldn't we learn from our mistakes. I think we should....Happy Reading, Peggy Lutz McDaniel



Photographs of the Heart is a collection of poems and short stories about my life growing up in the small rural town of Blacksburg, South Carolina and about my family and how each one of them touched my life and the imprint they left on my heart through the memories that we made over the years. I wrote about the changes that took place in my life when I left Blacksburg to move to Europe, specifically, The Netherlands, where I live now, and the journey I have been on for the last eleven years with my husband. I talk about my illness and how it affected my life causing me to become disabled, but, I also share stories about our travels throughout Europe and the places we have been and the memories we made and shared together. It might be a little rough around the edges, but whose life isn't. It's not a sappy love story, but a book meant for everyone. It's funny, sad, inspiring, thought provoking; a lot of things wrapped up in 400 pages and placed between two covers.



Introduction



When a person has drawn their last breath, and life slips away, what happens to their memories? Do they go with them, or drift aimlessly in the great, unknown of the cosmos? Personally, I believe they carry their memories with them, buried deep within the depths of their hearts. Just think of all the stories that could be told from a single person’s memories.



I know professionals trained in medical sciences, such as Neurologists, Physiologists, Sociologist, and all those others professionals with “ologist” after their names would venomously disagree with my thoughts that the heart stores our memories. They would argue that they are stored in the brain, and from medical perspectives, I guess that’s where they are stored. Memories, filed safely away in tiny file cabinets throughout our heads. But I prefer to think otherwise. Maybe I will add the title “Heartologist” after my name, (a word I just made up) so I can pretend to be educated in matters of the heart, or maybe I’m just a romantic.



I like to think of the heart, as perhaps, the first digital camera ever invented. With every memory we have being a photograph stored inside that organ. That beating muscle in our chest that keeps our bodies functioning. If the heart does not share those memories, no one will ever know what stories were held there. The heart can not print out those photographs and write notes on the back of them for others to find years later and be able to know what happened when that memory was snapped. Just like a digital photo, if it is never printed, you can’t turn it over and write a note on the back to explain why that snapshot was taken, on that day, at that precise time to preserve that moment forever.



I have thousand of pictures in books, boxes, scrapbooks, and yes even stored on my computer as digital photos, but if I don’t tell the stories behind my photographs, who will know and understand what was happening in my life on the days those pictures were taken.

As I share some of my memories with you through short stories and poems, I hope you will be inspired. Do not just keep all your memories locked up inside your heart, stuffed away in boxes, or on your digital storage units, but share them with your family and friends. Leave something of yourself behind, so that other generations in your family can see how their ancestors lived, loved and enjoyed life by sharing your memories in stories, a sort of legacy, if you like. The memories captured as photographs in your hearts.

 

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