Posh Photography & Designs » by Angie Matthews

I can still remember how excited I was when I opened it.  All I wanted for Christmas was that red leather Minnie Mouse watch, and she gave it to me, some 20 odd years ago.  “Santa” rarely, if ever, disappointed in her home.  We grew up without a lot of money, but Christmas was always special and she made sure of that.  Last October she left this world and I will never forget that day.  After years of battling Alzheimer’s Disease, she became very ill and flew home to be the true angel she was.

Today, i’m missing her.  My grandma.  There was not one person she wouldn’t help.  Take in her home.  Fix turkey dinners for Thanksgiving for.  She was not one of those boastful people either, that wanted you to know the good they were doing.   She was just plain good, plain giving and she didn’t even know it.  That was just her.  She was taken advantage of many times in her life and yet she never even realized it.  She just kept giving anyway…

I needed to feel the worn down leather of that little red watch against my fingertips today… To remind me how important this day is & how every minute I spend with my family is a blessing, to remind me that my happiness does not reside in possessions, but it’s something I feel deep in my soul, to remind me to never stop believing in the goodness of people.  She taught me every one of those things.

The New Year is just around the corner & it’s time for a fresh start- I’m letting go of all the bad & hanging on to all the good in my life, like really, really close to my heart.  Life is too short.  What am I going to be remembered by?  That is the question.  I find myself saying “I just don’t care” a lot lately, and it’s not that I don’t really “care”, it’s just that all of this “stuff” that makes for negative thinking is just pointless.  Why can’t we just be happy for each other, encourage each other and just let people live their lives the way they want to?

Christmas is tomorrow and I know a lot of us are missing someone special and though we can’t turn back those little hands of time and tell them face to face how much we miss & love them, we can still keep their love alive by loving in return and remembering them.  That is the greatest gift we can give.  This year I asked Santa for a Flip Video Camera, because I want to remember every little moment, big or small, significant or insignificant in my life.  So stay tuned for new videos from my sessions & of my wonderful family. 

I wanted to share the poem read that day last October and a video that inspires me to keep dreaming, to believe, to always forgive and to love… anyway.

Missing & remembering you this Christmas Grandma Gene & Grandpa John.

God is Great my friends- Wishing everyone love & lots of it this Christmas,

Angie

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

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