Part One
6 questions
Where you came from.
Childhood, home, family, the people who shaped them.
Thirty-seven questions across five sections, designed to move from where someone came from to what they know now. They aren't a script. They're prompts to let memory surface before you sit down together.
Print it, email it, or read it on your phone. Tell them they don't need to write anything. Just let it sit a few days.
The sections run roughly chronologically through a life, but you don't have to start at the beginning. Pick wherever feels most alive on a given day. Each section runs about forty-five minutes to an hour.
Childhood, home, family, the people who shaped them.
The kid they were, friendships, first loves, first sense of self.
Career, calling, contributions, the uncredited work.
Partnership, children, the hardest and best parts.
Reflections, what they'd want remembered, the things still unsaid.
Read the keeper's guide first. Five short techniques that change a recording into something worth keeping.