Personal History Coach’s Corner – Thanksgiving Edition

Laura Mclure of Ideas.TED.com posted this online recently for discussion at the Thanksgiving table. We at Memoirs challenge you to record the answers of your elders this holiday season.

Photo: Martin Cathrae

1. What are you grateful for?

2. What are you proudest of?

3. What’s been the happiest moment of your life so far?

4. What’s been the hardest moment of your life, and how did you get through it?

5. What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?

6. How would you describe yourself as a child? Were you happy?

7. Who has been kindest to you?

8. How do you want to be remembered?

9. If your great great grandchildren could listen to this years from now: is there any wisdom you’d want to pass on to them? What would you want them to know?

10. If you could honor one person in your life — living or dead — by listening to their story, who would that be, what would you ask them and why?