Watchful Fearful Heart....

Watchful Fearful Heart upon my sleeve
Awaiting Love's peaceful embrace to take leave
Always fearful our time will end
"Can't we always just be friends?"
When lines get crossed
Does passion betray pact?
Just when do you realize... 
...there is no turning back?
Many a bend in Love's river
The rapids tend wide
They move a bit faster
Than the small of the brook
Hearts knee deep now in rough water
Floating uneasy and watching
The rhythm of each cast
Random skips a top the water
Ungrudging jolts landing nothing...
Just coming up blank
Yet, true love can't be found and kept 
in the safety of a tank
Fearful hearts always bit slow to set the hook
Later finding them already within
Set deep
Unsure hearts only venture
Such a river or brook

Pulled by Love only fishing

To catch
Keep real
The bounty of Love's wild river
For all hearts willing, or not
to reel.

By Jeri Menane Sharpe 
1/15/2011

Video/Song for this post:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8bJ_40QgZA
Adam Lambert ~Whataya Want From Me

Stay on the Sunny Side of the Street!

Friday, September 10, 2010

Open Up..Empty Your Cup! ~ Why you should “empty your cup”

I was talking to someone today about first impressions.  It is hard sometimes to get the right take on a person the first time you encounter them.  For all you know, it could be in the middle of the worst period of their life.  What if the reason you are being thrown together with this person is for their need of a skill that you possess?  Your ability to pick yourself up by your bootstraps, dust yourself off and carry on, may be a talent they never learned.  Could it be divine intervention for you to teach this skill to them, while in turn you will be left with a few gifts from them?  It seems there is much more learning exchanged in life than what goes on at schools.  We seem to learn from our peers throughout our lives.

I am a very open person.  I strive for it.  I do have my times of wanting to hide away and lock everyone out.  There are definite times when I want to go a whole day without talking to a single sole.  Sometimes a whole weekend will go by and I won't have talked to any of my friends.  I have thought myself to be a perfect candidate for one of those island escape jobs.  Perfect for that, but far from perfect.  A retreat to an island or the woods to stay there locked away from the world for three months would be fantastic at first thought.  I think I would be fine for the first month.  Okay, maybe just first week to weekend, and then after that I would need my facebook & google buzz.    Then I would need more!  I admit that as much as I enjoy my quiet time, I really am a people person.  I enjoy the company of others.  Even if it is just small talk and getting to know what makes them tick.  I enjoy finding out about them and how they live.  To me I think we all are different wonderfully unique incredible people who can offer the world and each other so much.  To stay closed off with a full cups means we do not want more.  It also really means we have no more to give.  I would rather say that I am broken than to not be a giving person.

In some ways I believe you have to completely lose everything and become broken before you really know what you want and what you have to offer.  Or until you know how much room you have to fill and how much you can give.  I have gone through this transformation a time or two.  It isn't very fun.  At the same time however, I have learned much about the amazing blessings of friendships I have gained in this life.  I have also learned how strong I am as a person and just how capable I am.

There is always a bubbly side... a Sunny side of the street!  Enjoy the attached blog!  Enjoy your weekend!

Remember 9/11  For all  Remember.....


Video Song Pick #1 for All In THANKS!!  We Remember ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTKmjhJ1__o Aaron Tippin ~Where The Stars & Stripes


#2 Toby Keith - American Soldier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWrMeBR8W-c

#3 Katy Perry Thinking of You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebh6FL0vo44

 #4 LeAnn Rimes Probably Wouldn't Be This Way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miazVAj2PxA

ZEN and More ~ check it out: 
 http://zenandmore.com/2009/07/22/your-teacup-is-full-empty-your-cup/


Faith in you ~ Hope in future ~ Love for All ~ The Greatest of them is Love.... It will pull us through...  xoxox~me


Video/Song pick #5  ~ Give a little Bit ~ Goo Goo Dolls 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKIV3M_H9_E

Positivity Gets It Done!

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Sept.5,2010

Busy Busy Busy...I miss my friends!!

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park

I love Jane Austen!!  She knew things of what goes on in life and the workings of the heart...

I think it is amazing how we are able to comfort each other.  We find true companionship in our friends and are able to relate the details of our lives to people who we have met.  How is it that we become so close so quickly with some and yet others, remain distant?   I know some people for five minutes and it is like I have known them my whole life.  Others, I have know that long and then there are a distant few.  The NUTS you just can't crack....  I will never understand why some are so closed off.  I wonder if there is something to hide???  Maybe they are just shy?  I get that way too.  


I have my times when I just do not feel at ease.  Times when I have an easier time of just keeping to myself.  I also never know if I am intruding.  I wouldn't want to overstep and make others uncomfortable.  So, at those times I keep to myself.


This week and the past few have been so busy.  We have been on the GO a lot.  I have not been able to keep my posting going.  It would be great to find one of my friends who would like to share this post with me... something simple and positive.... for a Sunday AM or PM???  Anyone???    Email me: keepitbubbly@yahoo.com

I am taking inventory in my life this week....of my blessings!!!  I am really missing my friends.  The new busy has me all over the place!  I wish for some calm... some quiet and some escape!  "Star light....Star bright...." you get the idea.....


Blessings to all

Posted by Jeri Menane Sharpe at 11:45 PM

Sunday August 15th, 2010

Doing What 'You' Want

" There is no set path............

Follow Your Heart!"

Sunday Morning Sunshine comes to you after the sun has set.    A long week followed by a really nice late into the night visit with a good friends to set me straight. 

Have you ever caught yourself constantly talking of what you "don't want?"  I had this pointed out to me most recently.  I have spent a lot of time finding what I don't want. In fact, I was told that I need to stop saying what I don't want and start saying what I do want.

It makes sense too.  Change your view... sit at a new window.... or in the opposite chair......put the shoe on the other foot.  This is what I will do.  I have always written it down.  My focus is going to change because I have been positively focusing on the negative of want.  I have been focused on what I don't want instead of focusing on what I do want.  So to let you know what I have so far...  I want to be happy,  I want joy, and passion in simple everyday things.

So I am writing my list to keep it clear for myself of the things I want.  I am also accepting the joy of knowing that life will just keep pulling one closer to their rightful path everyday.  One just needs to "let go accept where life is taking you!  It is when we take control  (like in down hill skiing ...and try to stop when going really fast) that all the problems begin!  Go with it and move with the mountain.  Go where it is taking you....(in skiing and the like) be mindful of any cliffs!! 


Music Video Song picks for this week:  Uncle Kracker "writing it down"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01OAE5kk-dQ


&  Gavin DeGraw "we belong together"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBH-wwZBTwk


Enjoy your week!  keepitbubbly! ~ xOx~ Jeri

Sunday August 8th, 2010

LOSING IT!!

Quote: 

"I have lived long enough 

to learn how much there is I can really do without... 

He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things."  

~SOCRATES 

Have you ever been asked the following question: "Have you completely lost it?"  Well, this might be exactly what is needed in your life.  I don't mean go off the deep end and walk away from all you have.   What I do mean is take stock in what you have and how it is serving you.  What purpose dose it serve?  Is it serving you well enough to hold onto it, or is it time to let it go?  If there is something in your life that is just wasting your time and keeping you from having the enjoyment you deserve   Then maybe you need to walk away from it?

We are constantly being confronted with time wasters.  Life is the journey not the destination.  Take your time and enjoy the journey doing what you love!  If you are not enjoying your life, that is on you.  You can try and blame someone else, but everyday it comes down to the decisions you make.  If you want a different life, then start living your life differently.  It starts with you.  What do you want?  Take stock in what is important to you and who is important to you.  Design the life you want to live one step at a time.

The way I see it....YOU don't need a lot to be rich.  It isn't quantity it is quality that is important.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone ~ Henry David Thoreau

Let go of the things that waste your time and take you in the direction you do not want to go.  Start taking steps everyday to live the life you desire with those you love.

This weeks song/video picks Natasha Bedingfield 
~ Pocket Full of sunshine & Unwritten

 Pocket Full of Sunshine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gte3BoXKwP0 

Unwritten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7k0a5hYnSI 

Have a Great WEEK!!  xOx ~ Jeri  & remember to keepitbubbly!!
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