We work closely with people and their loved ones to craft intentional questions for an interview keepsake that can be cherished for generations.
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A thoughtfully guided interview tailored to your personal story and intentions.
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A personal message capturing one’s values, beliefs, and what mattered most, sent to specified loved one’s upon passing.
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A visual catalogue of heirlooms paired with a recorded conversation about their history and significance.
Dorothy Jean Minor was born on December the 12th, 1948. Just after her 77th birthday, we worked on her Heirloom Interview. It was a sunny day in early January of 2026. A cat named Java wanders in and out of the frame, and Dorothy is sporting all jean: a jean jacket, a jean cap, and jean pants.
Her intentions with an Heirloom Interview were to get her personal message on video, so it could be shared more easily with others.
“People don’t have to succomb to adversity. They can rise above it. That’s my message.”
Dorothy Jean Minor
Dorothy Jean Minor
“When I was about five, there was a little restaurant that we lived across the street from and my mother would put me in nice little dresses and let me go over there and the jukebox never stopped playing. They just kept putting money in just to watch me dance and I have been dancing ever since.
I could look at a dance once and get it. One of the seniors at the school that I went to—there was a new dance that came out–don't laugh–called the slop, and I could master that dance like you would not believe. And this one senior guy thought I couldn't do it and he was going to out-dance me. He failed miserably because I slopped him to death. So that's it. I just love to dance!
I just asked God in a prayer the other day that I just want to go dancing again because I haven't been able to since I got sick. I haven't been able to. So I just know that I would still be doing the same thing that I was doing before I got sick. I really do.
I just said to my Heavenly Father, I'm going to do the things that I can do and the things I can't do, I'm not going to worry about them.”
Johanna Sally Brunken
Johanna Sally Brunken
Johanna Brunken was born on January 13th, 1932. She is the daughter a German dad and a Dutch mother. For the last several years, with the help of her daughter, Linda, she has been working on writing her life’s story, her memoir.
The intention of her Heirloom Interview was to add her personhood to the mix, give her grandchildren and future curious generations a sense of what she’s like beyond the written word.
Her interview was a beautiful experience, watching her recall her past, and open up about personal vulnerabilities.
Among our favorite words from her are,
“I think understanding leads to a good life, because we're not always in this same thing, and sometimes we have different opinions, but you have to respect each other, and I think that's very, very important. I think the cell phones and stuff have kind of taken a toll on us. But, I think that mothers still love their children no matter what.”
“What I’m leaving behind . . . I had good children and raised them well, I hope I did, and I tried to be a good example—I don't know that I always was, because I was very shy and backwards most of my life, but that's how I tried. I tried to be a good mother.”
