Message In A Bottle

[Blade]

Check your love tank...What do you find?
Treat each relationship like the gas tank on your car.
Is your tank full?
Are you filling anyones tank?
Are you letting them run on empty, are they letting you?

So check your tank, for each person in your life
Is someone's tank running low where you are concerned
Or are you doing all the giving perhaps they feel as though they are

Your relationships need to be nurtured and petted like a puppy
They need to be cultivated and fertilized like a garden
So check your tank and see what you find
Communicate with one another, ya never know they may feel like their tank is running low too.

[Enchantress]

Believe in what is.

Believe in what was.

Believe in beauty.

Believe in the heart.

(Truly) Be.
before you
leave. (this life)

[Kenna]

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."

...Compassion, Love, Honor, Respect, Pride, Dignity, Affection, Tenderness, Grace...

Now, add to the list above the things you consider "The best and most beautiful things...", re-seal the cork on this beautiful blue and silver bottle... and toss it back into your ocean or sea...many blessings will come back to thee.

[Kenna]

Make the extra time to take the long path to get where you want to go.
If you always take the short path, you will never know what it's like to appreciate your hard work and rewards that come with taking the long path.

If you think you don't have the time to take the long path; You always have time for what you make time for.

[Bit]

The bottle's back!

*walks down to beach, pulls bottle out of water, dries it off*

*takes it back, settles in, uncorks it, pulls out two new notes*

Two?

"I have neither butter, nor biscuits and jam;
I'm in kind of a jam myself.
I ate them all with much elan,
didn't leave a crumb on the shelf."

*unrolls second note*

"she's grounded till she's 83
unless she makes more for me!

signed,
the grandkid"



LOL! oops. Wellll, no help there!

*recorks bottle with original message in it*

*takes it back, tosses it in, wanders home to wait*

[WolfyOne]

My message today as I roll up the paper to put in this empty wine bottle: Live life to it's fullest everyday and never take others for granite. If you love someone don't be afraid to tell them today because if you wait for tomorrow, it will never come

[Kätzchen]

"If some lives form a perfect circle, others take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been a part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful."
~ Theresa Osborne ... from the movie, Message in a Bottle (1999).

[Nat]

In every one of us, if we can still our questing heart and our puzzling mind, there is a secret doorway. Who knows how you will find this doorway? Through great suffering, so that one day you turn inside and in anguish stumble upon the key there in your heart? Through reading the lines of a poem? or hearing the words of a song that lead you to this hidden place? Or will it be when you grow old? When the seeking of fame and fortune, of possession and distraction weary you at last? and you take the first deliberate steps towards a discovery of the soul that breathes within you. However you journey to this doorway, however young or old, however driven by sadness or delight in exploring, once you turn its handle and step forward into the realm this doorway reveals, your life will change forever. For you will discover there the land that is known to the Druids and Celts as ..."The Land of Eternal Youth" , some call it..."The Land of Promise," others..."The Land of Honey". It is the secret heaven within each one of us, that if we dare to enter, we discover it is not binded by the limits of our mind or soul but is coexistent with the Universe. There we never age and live in perfect health and joy, feeding our hearts with the love of all creation and expressing our beauty and our strength in acts of noble generosity and courage. For some, it is easy to travel to this place - they have learnt the ways and know the routes that magic in the days of old have laid upon this trackless land, and they come and go through this doorway, refreshing their bodies, hearts and minds, bringing with them the gifts of youthfulness, of healing and of art.

Druidcast Episode 3

[WolfyOne]

My message today; Live like it's your last day on earth. Make as many moments count as possible. Don't think about tomorrow until it becomes today.

[cinderella]

Quill dipped in red ink - the color of love...

My dearest, to say that you have always lived in my heart all these decades is redundant. You know I will always love you. And even if I never see you again, you are always with me. My life has been an empty shell - always seeking to find the passion and love we shared, but to no avail - it only really happens once.

I hope with all my heart that you are happy in your life, even if it is without me. And if you no longer feel the same for me, I console myself with the thought that it is only one empty heart. That at least one of us has found happiness. And perhaps that means that one of us did not love as well. No matter. I had love at least once in my life - some never do. So, in that respect I am grateful to you, my eternal beloved.

I roll up the parchment, tie a red satin ribbon around it, and place it in the translucent green bottle. I place it on the foamy crest, and point it southward...to Florida. Please unfold this message with care, for it holds my heart.

[cinderella]

I wrote this for you in 2004, but you've never seen it. Here, again, I set another bottle adrift. This time I hope it finds you, and moves your heart...


The Questioning Heart

Tell me my love, what shall I do
To stop my heart from loving you?
What can I do with this love of mine,
I try to kill it, but it just won't die.

It sleeps and dreams in the quiet dark
Hiding in shadows an eternal spark
That now and then erupts in flames
Feeding a fire I cannot contain.

The flames consume and burn my soul
'Til there's nothing left of me at all.
In plumes of smoke my soul departs
Leaving in ashes my shattered heart.

A heart that sought with desperation
To find in you some consolation
With kisses lost so long ago,
With secrets only we would know.

But lost forever now it seems
Our vows of love and whispered dreams.
Tell me my love, what shall I do
To stop my heart from loving you?

[Andrew, Jr.]

What a wonderful thread. I will have to think of what to say.

Thanks Wolfy!

[Kenna]

Joy comes from adventure today.
Time to shake the world.

[Sachita]

I've been searching so many years. I'm tired, my heart tattered, torn and my body feels so very heavy. I am giving up hope of ever finding you. Where are you my beloved prince?

Heart Broken,
Your Queen

[JustJo]

Life is uncertain...eat dessert first.

[Bit]

*wanders back out into the sunshine, after several rainy days*

*sees the bottle bobbing in the water*

*pulls it out, dries it off, uncorks it*

"here on an island I sit and sigh a lot
thought I'd found my personal Camelot
sendin' this message to float on the waves
please send me chocolate, I've had none for days"

awwwww!

*grabs fistful of chocolates, stuffs 'em into bottle*

Hope they don't melt all over my note!!

*corks bottle, tosses it back in the sea*

*settles back to wait*

[Ms. Tabitha]

"Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely, the good and the bad and make changes as YOU see fit"

[cinderella]

You have quite an imagination, Bit, and are a very descriptive wriiter - I could see you on the beach just then, bending, picking up the bottle from the waves, and wrigling your toes as the water ebbed and flowed...

Originally Posted by Bit

*wanders back out into the sunshine, after several rainy days*

*sees the bottle bobbing in the water*

*pulls it out, dries it off, uncorks it*

"here on an island I sit and sigh a lot
thought I'd found my personal Camelot
sendin' this message to float on the waves
please send me chocolate, I've had none for days"

awwwww!

*grabs fistful of chocolates, stuffs 'em into bottle*

Hope they don't melt all over my note!!

*corks bottle, tosses it back in the sea*

*settles back to wait*

[Kenna]

"Hey son,

Since you won't answer the phone, emails or a drive-by-honk-my-horn-get-yer-azz-outa-bed message....
I'm sending you this message in a BIG bottle to remind you to do the dishes, take out the trash and mow your Gramma's lawn...Gramma can use the bottle to knock you silly if you don't do your chores!!

Love Always,
Do It Cuz I Say So and I'm Still Your Momma No Matter How Old You Are"

[Spirit Dancer]

I would give up my wishes
if you would grant me one
perfect health for them.
Places note in bottle, prays hard
tosses it into the river.