On Liam's 11th anniversary we hosted a group of friends for dinner. These were all folks who knew her well and helped taking care of her. At the end of the evening, I invited them all inside to watch the below clip. But, to my embarrassment the clip got stuck a few minutes in. The next day I worked on uploading it to Youtube so I can share it electronically.
This is the story of how this clip was born in the first place:
Two or three years after Liam passed, I realized that we have a lot of video pieces of her - but they were all stored on old tapes - VHS (remember those?) and 8mm. I wanted to digitize everything before those old technologies would disappear and become completely unavailable. So I purchased the right hardware and software and over several weeks I was able to accomplish that. That was a big relief: Now our memories of hers - in motion and with her voice - are safely preserved forever.
I then thought to myself, well, now that I have it all digitized, maybe I should make one DVD summarizing her time with us. This would basically be selected clips from the larger collection all put together and edited in one DVD. I started playing with it - just to create a prototype on which I would get experience towards the larger DVD project. The goal was to train myself in video editing. But then "things happened" - as is often the case in life. The computer died (and I had to salvage the disk with all the digitized videos), the replacement was not as powerful, I was in between jobs, yadda, yadda, yadda. What I ended up with was just the "prototype" - the result of my self training. I just found it the other day. Here it is:
