Sylvia's Journal

I have been working for at least 10 hours now on a slide show to celebrate MSH’s 40th birthday during a visit from our chief operating officer. I have sent emails around the world for photo memories and must have a folder now that contains close to a 1000 pictures. This is both a good thing and a bad thing about digital pictures. Everyone has so many of them from the last 10 years or so, it is like an unstoppable flood.

Photos from the first three decades here are a little more sketchy. I have to content myself with the occasional grainy scanned image. Early pictures require searching, scanning and minimizing. This is more work for my colleagues who were here in the 70s and who actually made pictures. As I am finding out most didn’t.

While I am working on organizing the pictures around themes (MSH Special Forces, Kitchen Crew, Wheels, At Work, At Play, In The Presence of Power, Teams, etc.) I curse my small screen laptop but it will have to do. I know it is going to make people smile and dig up good memories of past times – good past times amidst many bad times. I have dedicated the slide show to our fallen colleagues. There have been a few.