Hi Folks,
I'm not sure if this is the right topic to post under but here goes....
For a few years now, our family has changed in many fundamental ways. We've lost parents and gained beautiful children. It has been a bitter-sweet few years. When you are a new parent with elderly, sick parents of your own, you realise how precious time is and how quickly it goes.
There is a sense of urgency. You take pictures and record videos to capture the happy, healthy moments because you know deep down, they are dwindling in number and are so so precious.
We lost three parents in the space of three years. In reality, they barely got to know their new grandchildren so memories with them are very few.
The recordings of our parents are unspecific captured moments that we look upon from time to time and smile and sometimes cry. It is only after their passing that we've often thought that it would have been lovely to capture them reading to their new grandchildren. To really capture a moment in time that can have a specific place in our family. To keep their memory vibrant and to experience their love again through story.
My wife and I are in the process of building this app/service -- to have a place for us to record ourselves reading for our children so they can have those moments with us when we're not there and we're looking for a few volunteers to help us get this just right and ultimately open it to the community. If this is something that you'd be interested in helping with, please DM me!
TIA!
JP + Gill