A Moment with Mattie: The journey's end...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The journey's end...

Posted by Hazelmarie Elliott (Mattie) at 8:08 AM

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About Me

Hazelmarie Elliott (Mattie): United States; I'd like to welcome everyone to my blog. Hopefully, all who visit will find something of interest and offer a thought in return. To tell you about myself, well, I'm a mother, grandmother, and widow. I was raised on a farm in rural Ohio, an only child of two working-class parents who instilled in me the values that have made me what I am today. It is the simple things in life that mean the most to me...family, friends, nature, animals, and the pure enjoyment of just being alive. I can be opinionated, but always extend understanding to the fact that others have their own opinions, as well. We are all different, and that's what makes life interesting. On our blogs we can share those opinions, thoughts, emotions, and ideas. So, here we go...shall we?(smile)

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On love -

Love is like a sixth sense.

Like a taste, it is felt and

experienced...

The lightness of being...

The older you become, the more paler your countenance -

until finally your essence lightens and fades, absorbed into

the earth, wind, and sky. Your existence noted only by

the stirring of memory.

Happy dust -

I wish I could carry happiness

like a star in my pocket -

allowing its light to

sprinkle stardust

with my every

step...

On happiness...

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other.

When one takes a rest, the other one tends to

take up the slack.

Through the looking glass...

Guilt is only your conscience

turned inside-out.

~ * ~

Conscience is one of the greatest

self-incriminators known

to mankind.

Memory wall -

cards, pictures, letters...

Hope

Hope is the light that gleams in one's heart,

leading them from their darkest thoughts

into the realization of a dream.

A rose is a rose...is a rose... yet -

Remember, in the garden of life,

there will always be more thorns

than roses...

Happiness

There's no understanding happiness,

nor is there any way to hold

its elusive hand -

as it moves through your life

in and out, out and in,

offering little breaths of joy

in tiny parcels...

Breath of Heaven

Every now and then,

when the world sits just right,

a gentle breath of heaven

fills my soul with delight...

Shades of darkness and light ...

Through the passage of solemn hours,

let our light be love -

may darkness bring a resting

of body and soul in dreams

of life fulfilled...

Love is 'everything'...

Hatred is a fire that consumes our world

without lighting it. In its flame we gain

nothing and lose everything...

Gratitude...

Gratitude, the sweetest sound of giving -

often the quietest of all humanly things...

Looking back...

I look back at the road I chose when I was young.

How ironic the one I thought would be the longest -

now seems the shortest...

Having faith...

Fate and destiny
may deal the cards,
but faith and perseverance
always reveal a winning hand...

Grace and Happiness...

May we forever offer of ourselves

in genuine empathy, in good faith,

and with fervent promise -

to help all hearts find grace

and happiness in the light

of human kindness.

Lost and Found

I haven't lost my mind. I merely misplace it

from time to time.

Monet

Summer

Spring

Favorite places to visit

The Quote Garden
World of Poets
Poemhunter
Fenny's Bla Bla Blog

Carousel

Followers

favorite poets

Brenda Creamer
Jane Kenyon
Mary Oliver
Robert Frost

BlogCatalog

♥

We are born,

then we die -

and it is everything

between the two

that drives

the heart

wild...

♥

A Favorite Quote...

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~ * ~
Robert Brault

Don Elliott

October 19, 1938 - July 5, 2007

♥

It only takes one little prayer

to summon all of Heaven's

angels...

♥

Julie's book -

Blogs to visit

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خواطر و أبيات في الحزن .
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POETICALLY IGNITED

4 years ago

Visiting Maria

Life is good award!

Thank you, Dixie

Click on the above picture (Life is good award), and it will take you to the dcrelief blog. The award was generously given to me by its writer, Dixie, and I thank her greatly. Life really is good, you know - how easily we forget to open our eyes and enjoy its beautiful offerings.

Autumn

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