TY BURR What an old cassette tape taught me about how we keep our loved ones alive in the 21st century
Last week, at the request of one of my sisters, I pulled a nearly 30-year-old audio cassette out of a box in my basement and digitized its contents onto my computer via a hardware widget I’d purchased online.
In so doing I heard my mother’s voice for the first time since she died in 2005. It was an out-of-body experience more profound than any other piece of sound or vision I’ve encountered all year.
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