Candledrops
A story in every drop
You know them as your parents and grandparents. But do you know their stories?
Sit down with your mom, your dad, your grandparents — and capture the life they lived before you, in their own voice, while you still can.
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I was 25 when my dad died. A month later, we lost my grandfather — his father — too.
For years after, I kept realizing how little I actually knew about either of them. With my dad, we'd talked plenty — the way fathers and sons do — but almost none of it was his story: what he was scared of, what he wanted at twenty, who he was before I existed. And my grandfather? I knew even less. A whole generation further back, and nearly all of it was already gone.
Those stories went out with them.
I built Candledrops so other families don't lose what I did — so the stories get told while there's still someone here to tell them.
Every life is a candle that burns down. But there's a story in every drop.
— Jason, founder
What you'll make
Their life, kept — in their voice, their words, their photos.
Every answer becomes part of a keepsake you can read, hear, and hand down. You ask; they remember; Candledrops keeps it safe.
Describe the house you grew up in.
We had a little place on Cedar Street — yellow, with green shutters my father repainted every other spring. You walked in and the kitchen was right there, so the whole house always smelled of whatever my mother had going on the stove…
Every life is a candle that burns down. But there's a story in every drop.
It only takes one conversation to start.
Start a conversationCandledrops — a story in every drop