Memories of Home: A Keepsake You Create

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Limits on socialising within care homes and in some cases a ban on any visitors for many months seems to have taken its toll.

Details of significant experiences from decades ago may still be available if you can coax them out of your memory. Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. Philippians 2:2 There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.”— Robert SoutheyHouses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.”— Francis Bacon And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil. Ephesians 4:26–27 According to the theory, rapidly repeated material is associated with a single state of context, whereas material repeated across different times and events is associated with several different states of context. This pays off later, when you’re sitting in the exam hall desperately trying to recall the chemical formula for potassium permanganate, because your current state of context will be more likely to match one of the many states of context in which you so diligently did your chemistry revision. Celebrate the positive.– Celebrateaccomplishments, find the good in challenges… helpyour spouse and childrennotice what’s good and live with hope.Celebrate working together. Celebrate family. Not just holidays and celebrations. Not traditions. Not evenscrapbooks, digital photos, videos, or anything you put on social media to save for the future.

A competing theory, known as systems consolidation theory, instead proposes that memories are initially stored in the hippocampus but are gradually transferred and strengthened in other brain regions over time. This is not to say that all evidence that relies on memory should be discarded or regarded as unreliable – they often provide the most compelling testimony in criminal cases. But it has led to rules and guidelines about how witnesses and victims should be questioned to ensure their recollections of an event or perpetrator are not contaminated by investigators or prosecutors. Because you may not spontaneously recall cues related to a long-forgotten memory, you'll have to generate some. Dr. Budson recommends that you try these strategies: We need help to jog our memory. "When we're younger, an internal cue — just thinking of something — can help retrieve a memory," Dr. Budson says. "But when we're older, we rely more on external cues to retrieve memories, like a sound or an image." Cue the memoryWhether you’re looking for the perfect quote to place on the cover of a scrapbook or a book full of family stories with questions to ask your family , here are some quotes to consider. Short Quotes About Home A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” ~Author Unknown The difference between a house and a home is this: a house may fall down, but a home is broken up.”— Elbert Hubbard When we do get the chance to chat, we also have fewer stories to tell. As holidays get cancelled, weddings are postponed, concerts and sporting events go ahead without live audiences, we have less to talk about. And as for tales of woe at work, they’re mainly about the frustrations of technology letting us down.