Tip #0: The Origin of Mosaic Memoirs

As I write this, it is January 1, 2024. We have just wrapped up a wonderful year with a full heart. Now, I am on a mission! As one of my resolutions for 2024, I am intending my husband Keith and I will both have completed memoirs by the end of the year. I decided I was going to try to get as many of my family members and friends to write their memoirs as well. I planned our approach, worked on the structure, researched, then I got busy and set it aside - that is until just before Christmas when my brother’s daughter Lindsay died unexpectedly. Over the past weeks as our family shared photos, stories, and tears, I began searching my heart for a way to honor Lindsay’s beautiful but too brief life. This is my gift to honor Lindsay. It is also my gift to honor you. My hope is that it can also become your gift to the people you love and to those that come after you. Although you may never know them, perhaps they can know you through your memoir.

This love project is a tribute to the extraordinary narrative that is Lindsay’s life, one she never got to fully live or fully tell. It is also a tribute to the extraordinary narrative that is your life — a narrative that deserves to be preserved, celebrated, and shared. I dug out all my notes and scribbles and made it pretty for us. I designed a little place online for us to turn the art of storytelling into a little ritual, allowing us to reflect on our experiences, celebrate milestones, and connect with the storyteller within us. Every life’s story is worth telling. Thank you for telling yours. - Mary