“You took me to see this house at night, I couldn’t see a damn thing.” Her eyes held a glint of contempt and laughter.
“Yeah I know I know, but I was excited about a house being for sale in my favorite street.” The tone of his reply asked for acceptance not cynicism.
It was December 2001 and he had reason to be excited, he’d been searching for the right house for eight months; he knew this time this was “the one”. The last house he’d become excited about had an ominous gas smell at the front and it sat tucked into a cliff overlooking a lagoon. Luckily its price was just out of reach for the family budget.
The names from the family story above have been dropped to protect the innocent. Moving into a new home for families is a milestone and one that could be presented for future relatives to know. That’s why the Family Knowledge Process has a special family event code: HOME.
What family keepsakes do you have from your first family home?
I’m not just talking about photos and videos I’m referring to other mementos. When I started classifying my marriage family group events I was amazed at how sentimental I was towards our first family home.
I’d kept the advertising for sale of our apartment, the brochures for the new house, the thank you cards, business cards from the real estate, and the complimentary coffee cups we’d been given on moving day. Over time I’d started tiring of seeing them and was at the point of ditching them. Now that I have the family knowledge process I’ve scanned these items into the HOME Event folder.
Filing Journal Event Code: HOME
Once I had the images integrated into the HOME folder I was then able to enrich the information by writing an illustrated short story about moving into the house I’d only let my wife see at night.
Soul Assets and Digital Dreaming supports keeping family knowledge with 15 Journal and Filing Codes
To hear more about family knowledge management and the benefits of classification systems I invite to listen to this interview with Diane Ray on Hay House Radio.
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