I started learning my dead grandmother's language through her old letters but I'm making up meanings for words I can't translate and I don't know if that's honoring her or fabricating her.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to know the unknowable dead through their artifacts leads to creative fiction disguised as memorial.
“Where Are You with Grief and creativity — making from loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.