Roger Holding His Bottle With His Feet

Roger using his feet to hold his bottle.

My mom has album after album of wonderful old family pictures, and the one shown above is one of my family's all-time favorites. It shows my brother Roger using his feet to help hold a rather large baby bottle. Roger always was a resourceful one, so it's no surprise to those of us who know and love him that even as a baby he was able to find a way to keep sucking on that bottle after most babies would have grown tired and drifted off to sleep.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I think they're worth a lot more than that. For example, you could listen to someone describe the way Roger held his bottle with his feet a dozen times, but you would never be able to visualize it as well as you can by taking just one quick glance at this photo.

A good picture is a literal snapshot in time, preserving forever a brief moment in someone's life that is worthy of remembrance. Old pictures and good memories are treasures that can never be replaced, but together they can tell wonderful stories that can be handed down from generation to generation, never growing old or fading away.

Modern technology has made preserving old family photos much easier than in times past. One very inexpensive CD or DVD can store thousands of images in high-quality digital format, and they can be easily re-produced and distributed among family members far and wide. That way a tragedy such as a fire can't wipe out the only copy of precious photos like the one featured in today's picture. That's why it's a good bet that Roger will still be holding that bottle with his feet long after we're all gone.

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