Purpose
A living, organic record of me, my life journey and beings I shared the journey with
- A coherent expression of my values (Oneness, Love, Lover of life, Connection, Sacredness, Wisdom, Insight, Wonder, Beauty, Creativity)
- A record of those I loved, connected with.
- A record of my photos and my photographic journey.
- A record of my passion projects and their unfolding.
- A record of my personal growth and insights. (Compass in action)
- My memoir & spiritual journey (Progress, moments, spiritual moments, special connections, teachers, healers, books, events, insights, challenges)
- A record of my time in history. Technology, internet, digital, cameras, movies.
An expression of gratitude & appreciation
- A celebration of all I most value (a key aspect of meaning)
- A celebration of my life and my most cherished relationships, connections, memories, experiences, moments.
- A gratitude journal → Love, Lover of life → Spiritual power
- A curation of all that I treasure most. Priceless memories, moments, special connections, photos, blessings, insights, my spiritual journey.
- The joy of regularly looking back and & reliving & savouring. (E.g. through random memory)
- Story telling & appreciation, especially humour & insight.
- A celebration of Life as experience: Special moments and connections.
- A record of gratitude expressed to others, lists of things to be grateful for, progress, service and connection, food, moments, spiritual moments, synchronicities, mystical experiences, insights, challenges overcome.
A celebration of wonder and beauty
- Inspired me to take up photography in 1st place and see, capture and share beauty.
- A celebration of wonder, beauty and the sacredness and the specialness of life and the world.
- Celebration of the world and life as God's work of art.
- Photos of wonder and beauty, poems, spiritual writing, moments.
Deepening intimacy with life (past, present & future)
- A form of appreciating & savouring of past, present and future.
- A sense of purpose in terms of life experiences.
- An incentive to get out and experience.
- Taking photos by being in senses, noticing beauty plus excitement for blog
- Editing and blogging - reliving and sharing with others (there and not there)
- Revisiting (time dividend). Savouring the past.
- Add to photo collection for Wonder Trove
Connectedness to The Ground of Being (Life)
- Life Trove is an integral part of my relationship with Life.
- A lover & celebrator of Life
- Adds to my love of Life + Sense of Meaning (Coherence, Purpose, Significance) + Gratitude, Appreciation, Celebration → Deepens my connectedness to Being and access to spiritual power.
- Presence while experiencing through photographing while in my senses. Noticing. Clear seeing without labels.
- A sense of divine order, orchestration and benevolence.
- Like Life Trove with labels, no experience is lost but vibrates in the timeless Now with experience fields.
- A form of life appreciation & reflection. A taste of a life review in the between life realm where I get to reflect on this life & others with all memories accessible.
Inspires me to live fully & deeply, getting up & out, embracing adventures
- Inspired me to take up photography.
- Inspires me to get out more, to experience and explore more, to embrace life more, to take photos. Embrace new experiences and adventures.
- Travel, Outings, Photography, MeetUps
- Purpose: Get out and take photos to enrich blog. Joy of taking photos in Presence. Joy of editing and curating (reliving). Joy of remembering years later.
- Incentive to get out and take photos, add to my collection of photos and memories.
- Enjoyment while I'm out in the world. Noticing and photographing. "This will be great for my blog." "This will be remembered."
- Wishing to live an inspiring life worth blogging about.
- Through my photography, gave rise to Arctic, Antarctica, Iceland & Greenland, Kruger.
- A record of progresss → Momentum & motivation
- Sean: "Amazing zest for life."
Increase well-being & resilience
- Looking back at happy memories and photos increases happiness. Memory dividend.
- Emotional well-being: Happiness, lift mood, Serotonin & oxytocin.
- Resilience in tough times when challenges arise. Remember Xmas 2005.
- Nostalgia & reminiscence: Nostalgia often increases feelings of meaning, belonging, identity continuity, and emotional warmth.
- A sense of meaning (purpose, coherence, significance, value)
- A sense of progress.
- A sense of a life fully lived.
- Mood chart giving perspective.
- Record of challenges transcended or not eventuating.
- Calms and soothes me: Life in order, Meaning, Nostalgia, Perspective, Softens hard times, they ended up ok
Add meaning (purpose, significance, coherence, value), perspective, insight to my life
- Coherence: Self as a narrative
- Value: Knowing what I value and living by that.
- A sense of life in order
- Provide perspective on my life (big picture, see the journey and evolution, find meaning)
- An incentive to self-reflection and recording of lessons and insights.
- Recognise my story as a fiction I can enjoy but not be overly identified with (It's a movie and Graeme is a character)
- See the perfect mosaic of my life's unfolding, how it brought me to this moment → Benevolence & Trust
- Narrative therapy: An affirming story that empowers. Reframing the past. Celebration of the journey, growth, expansion & insights.
- Record of my insights, learnings, reflections & books
- A source of info for AI to create self-insight from
A treasure trove of memories & moments to savour and reflect on
- Looking at old photos and memories makes us happy.
- Collector's instinct: Collecting memories & experiences.
- Creating memories is one of the very purposes of life. I am a memory curator / collector.
- Keeps important memories organized and readily accessible, avoiding the risk of physical loss and fading.
- Look back and savour my life memories, the experiences I had. Nostalgia & reminiscense.
- Labels & highlights: All memories of a particular year, person, place, trip.
- Keeps memories alive. Memories crystalised and immortalised. Freezes time.
- Increases the value of experiences. Makes them worth investing in.
- Collecting memories (experiences) over things. Memory dividend.
- Family memories and research. A sense of continuity, connection with past family members, pets & friends. Keeping their memory alive.
- Resilence and reminder of good times in midst of challenging times.
- Look back in old age and savour my life memories.
- Annual highlights and reviews
- Beauty of nostalgia
Creative expression: A work of art
- Photography as a creative art.
- My life as a work of art.
- Life Trove as a work of art.
- A platform to express sentiments through photos, writing, poetry and storytelling.
- Incentive to express love in creative ways.
- Curation of all I treasure, created, selected, arranged and ordered, related, shared, made accessible.
Integrates with and adds to Wisdom Trove & Compass
- Compass → Life Trove: Record my progress, share different facets of Compass in action, spiritual journey shared.
- Wisdom Trove → Life Trove (Profile link)
- Life Trove → Compass: Reflecting, recording, gratitude, curating.
- Life Trove → Wisdom Trove: Html skills, inspired multiple views & overviews, curating, links to quotes & books.
Deepens love and connection with family and friends
- A way to express love and gratitude (tributes, letters, videos, cards, songs)
- A way to be fully open. Let others in. Open up and share my experience.
- Connect to mum and Jo and close friends, giving them a sense of my life experience.
- Keep mum, Mike and Jo intimately involved in my life despite distance. Close friends too.
- Posts labeled with loved ones, allowing me to savour the relationships.
- Enables tribute videos (Jo, Elna, Shushann, Liz)
- Enables tribute songs (Mum, Jo, Tina)
- Enables letters & cards (Mum, Jo, Sam, Matt, Sue, Jilly, Chrisel, Tina)
- Give loved ones a window into me: Openness, intimacy, authenticity, realness.
- In my life-time, geared at people I know and cherish, not strangers.
- Family members past: Celebrating their lives, keeping their memories alive.
A family & cultural legacy
- Treasured moments, family photos and stories are captured for future generations.
- Sam, Mat, their kids
- Vanderbecks
- Family research
- Photo and letter archives
- A record of a life in my era. A time capsule.
- A record of a mystic and lover / student of life.
- A link at my funeral (slide show, program)
Encouragement and affirmation from people I care about
- Not thousands of strangers (privacy, pressure, judgement).
- Deeply drunk by loved ones. Mum, Jo, Srini, Gavin, Liz, Shushann, Chris, Russell, Julian, Dani, Jane, Trish, Ana (English student)
- A record of beautiful, affirming comments over time → Confidence, love, connection.
Inspires others to appreciate life, live fully and to blog.
- Inspire others to embrace and appreciate life and its sacredness.
- Inspire others to live life to the full.
- Inspire others to curate their lives.
- Raise consciousness of people who view it.
- Open eyes to wonder, beauty, sacredness, oneness and joy of life
Developed skills
- Html: Ability to create sites (Wisdom Trove, sites for others)
- Photography and photography editing
Vision
Gratitude, Appreciation, Celebration, Savouring
- A lovingly curated collection of all I love and cherish most
Look back and savour
- Regular look backs through "random memory"
- Look back in old age and savour my life memories.
- A sense of meaning, coherence and divine order.
- Nostalgia, Reminiscence
- Gratitude & appreciation
Life Trove & Life as a work of art
- Creative, So much love invested
- My life as a work of art. A beautiful narrative.
“Wow, he really embraces life and lives it to the full. I can too."
- My entire life curated showing a full life of a passionate liver, lover of life and the world, artist at living, spiritual mystic and photographer.
- Link at my funeral + Content for slideshow
An expression of love and gratitude
- Photos, letters, cards, tributes, videos, songs, memories.
- A celebration of a full, greatly appreciated life.
Connection & authenticity
- An expression of pure openness, allowing myself to be seen.
- Loved ones able to share my experiences → Intimacy.
- A sense of family, memories to celebrate.
- Love & gratitude expressed
Future family and cultural record
- A record for future family members.
- Looked back at by future generations as one of the first and purest examples of digital life curation: a work of art.
- Added to digital archives. A time capsule.
Guiding Principles
Life in order, Coherence
- Coherence: Meaningful connection between parts, fitting together to form a unified whole.
- Narrative, Life as story (a meaningful, coherent collection of experiences), Life journey
- Order: Systematic arrangement, Clear structure
- User friendly
- Easy access (Left nav highlights, Introductions with lists, Labels, Related posts)
- Multiple views (left navigation, landing page links, post labels, related links)
- Overviews (Helicopter view) → Detail
- Up to date
- Divine order and orchestration, Benevolence, Gratitude
Life curation
- Experience collecting & curating
- Experience & photograph → Select, Edit, Arrange & Order → Publish and Share → Revisit & Savour
- Collect memories, moments, connections and photos of things I cherish.
Meaning (Purpose, Coherence, Significance)
- Big picture, Perspective
- Life as a journey
- Turning experience into meaning & wisdom
- Life as a coherent, integrated narrative → Divine order
- Self-identity & self-discovery
- Expression of life orchestration, divine order → Trust, Divine benevolence
- Life Trove as an incentive to get up and out in the world
Appreciation, Gratitude, Celebration, Savouring
- Celebration of all I treasure most
- Sacredness of life experience: a gift to appreciate and savour
- Wonder, Beauty
- Sacredness of all
- Gratitude, Appreciation, Awareness of Grace & Blessings
- Recognise what really matters
- Carpe diem, Embrace living, Lover of Life
- Enjoyment, Savouring, Fun
- Reminiscence, Nostalgia, Anticipation
- Tributes: Posts honouring people, places, and objects that shaped my life.
Up & Out in the World
- Exploration, Travel
- Adventure
- Nature, Wilderness
Life & spirituality as an unfolding journey
- Journey of a mystic: Awakenings, spiritual moments, insights
- Spirituality as a journey
- Life as a narrative / story
- See my growth and evolution over time
- Life divided into meaningful eras
- Synchronicity
- Spiritual moments
- Divine order, Divine benevolence
Love & Connection
- Love expressed
- Loving the beings I share life's journey with and the experiences we've shared
- Expressing love and gratitude
- Tributes, Videos, Letters, Cards, Songs
- Lover of life
- Loving being this character
- Connection to Life, Love of Life
Wisdom & Insight
- Learning, Insights
- Growth, Transformation
- Reflection
- Teachers, Therapists, Books
- Growth, Evolution, Sel-transcedence
- Transcendence over limitations
Authenticity, Realness, Intimacy
- The hard bits and the wonderful bits
- My challenges & limitations
- Openness, Vulnerability, Intimacy
Accessibility
- Easy to find a memory
- Browsing: Few clicks
- Introductions
- Labels
- Descriptive title → Easy search
Accessibility to experience fields (through labels & lists)
- By place: Country, city, landmark (e.g. Cape Town, Table Mountain, Clifton)
- By person
- By year
- By travel / trip period (e.g. 1997 travels, South Africa 2023)
- By activity or interest (e.g. hiking, nature, movies, passion projects, technology)
- By theme of experience: (eg. sunsets, eagles, boats, mountains, beaches)
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