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The Memory Box Project is designed to build community through sharing life experiences as written memories. For this service learning practicum, CU-Boulder students from Dr. Kayann Short's Literature of Lifewriting course pair with local seniors to create a personal narrative or "memory story."
This intergenerational exchange teaches us the ways in which the past, present, and future can connect us through lifewriting and the expression of memories as stories.
The Memory Box Project also fosters cross-generational understanding and friendship as seniors and students collaborate in the writing process. Through this interaction, participants gain a stronger sense of themselves as a part of the multigenerational Boulder community.
To write one's life is to live it twice, and the second living is both spiritual and historical, for a memoir reaches deep within the personality as it seeks its narrative form and it grasps the life-of-the-times as no political analysis can.
Patricia Hampl