What to send
Anything. The smallest things are often the ones the family keeps coming back to. It doesn’t need to be well written, or sad, or finished.
If you don’t know where to start
Pick one. Answer it in a sentence, out loud, in the car.
- What did they always say?
- What did they call you?
- What did they cook without measuring anything?
- A song that is theirs now.
- Where did they always sit?
- What was in their pockets, their purse, the glovebox?
- The joke they told too many times.
- Something they got completely wrong, and wouldn’t admit.
- What they did when you were sick.
- A place you can’t drive past anymore.
- Something they taught you without meaning to.
- What their hands looked like doing something.
- Who they were before the kids, if you knew them then.
- The last good ordinary day.
- What they would say about all this.
- The thing you’d want the kids to know.
What people send
A line they always said. A voice memo from the parking lot, after something reminded you. A photo of their handwriting on an envelope. The recipe, with their notes in the margin. A story from before anyone else knew them. A video of the garden they planted.
To (855) 414-1212
She called every dog “Mister,” even the girl dogs. Especially the girl dogs.
Transcript: He always had butterscotch in his coat pocket. Always. I don’t think I ever saw him eat one.
Funny is welcome. A lot of the best ones are funny.
Kids can send too, and should. A six-second voice memo from a seven-year-old is the kind of thing nobody else could have saved.
And send more than once. The same link keeps working. Most of what a family ends up with arrives one small thing at a time, long after the first week.
For organizers: asking again, later
The first week brings a rush. After that, people still remember things, they just don’t think to send them. A short text on the right day helps. Copy one of these and put your own link in.
On their birthday
Anne would have been 79 today. If anything comes back to you, the link still works, and it all goes to the family: quicklittlememory.com/m/…
Around the holidays
First Thanksgiving without Mom. If a memory of her comes up today, even a small one, send it here when you get a minute: quicklittlememory.com/m/…
On an ordinary Tuesday
Lily asked what Grandma was like when she was little. If you have a story, she’d love it. Same link as before: quicklittlememory.com/m/…
Somebody is already remembering something.
It’s invite-only for now, opening to a few families at a time. If you’ve been invited, sign in with the email the invitation went to. Otherwise, write to hello@quicklittlememory.com and we’ll let you know.