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November - 2001

This Month's Issue Includes:

1. A Thought Provoking Question
2. A Ritual to Protect Your Heart
3. A Special Poem
4. The Gift

Dear Alive With Love visitors,

This is the first of my bi-monthly newsletters. I hope to offer you a little inspiration, some fun, and useful information every couple of weeks. I’ll keep it short and sweet. Please invite your friends to join my mailing list and support the affiliates that I’ve assembled for you. Please, please let me know what you’d like me to offer here and on my site.

Joy to you in all you do,
Kara Oh

1. A Thought Provoking Question

What are the qualities you think people admire about you? Write them down and describe how that makes you feel. Next, make a list of the qualities you WISH people admired about you. Why do you want those qualities and how can you develop them in yourself? Prioritize those that you would like to develop and pick the first two to work on. Make a plan that will help you become the kind of person you want to be. Make notes throughout the next two weeks as you work toward your goals.

I’ve made available three Self-Help Seminars filled with processes that will help you blossom and be happier.

A fun book to read is Michael Webb's The Romantic's Guide To Popping the Question. Even if you have no intention of proposing to anyone you'll have fun reading about the unique, sometimes weird, and even totally awful real-life proposals.

2. A Ritual To Protect Your Heart

With the fear that has been fostered by the events of September 11, and the economic slowdown that has followed, many people feel insecure, vulnerable and unsafe. Do this ritual to help you cope with the stresses you may be feeling and to let go of any negative feelings that may harm your physical and emotional well-being.

• Find some time to be alone or do this ritual with someone you care about.
• If you have sage, burn it and cleanse the space in which you will be performing this ritual.
• Light a candle with the intention to purify your heart of anger, hurt and fear.
• Take a few deep breathes and relax your entire body.
• Invite your higher power (God, Goddess, angels, spirits) to assist you.
• Close your eyes and allow an image of strength and protection to appear in your mind’s eye. It may take several minutes for you to focus. Let a feeling of love and safety form a protective shield around you. Then say the following words as many times and as often as you need to feel truly protected and loved. “I am safe, I am loved, I send my love to those in need.”

Have you visited the Wishes & Dreams section at Alive With Love yet? Rituals are my daughter’s passion so I created her web pages so she could share the power of ritual with you. As you’ll see, her Wish Boxes are beautiful keepsakes.

My son told me recently that the way sumo wrestlers gain weight is to eat one giant meal a day. The way they lose weight is to eat five small meals a day. Hmmmm? Something for us to think about.

3. A Special Poem

Rainbow Woman
Old woman
New woman
Woman inside me
Woman outside me
Under the earth woman
Yet-to-be born woman
Woman dancing the circle
Woman singing down the moon
Woman
Cornmeal woman offering her blessing
Sundown woman ready to mate
Woman with mild words
Woman lashing serpents
Humble woman willing to wait
Rainbow woman painting the sky
Queenly woman souring high
Blessing the world
Woman
Old woman
New woman
Woman that I am
Woman

Written by Dixie Gladstone of Ojai, California

In a Photoshop class my instructor told us about an amazing web site and lots of fun for all ages. Go to: www.zefrank.com. He has a link for the funniest card: nobody here. Click on the nose and be sure and use the tweezers. Click to pull the hair. Very funny.

4. The Gift

A young man wished to purchase a gift for his new girlfriend’s birthday. They hadn’t been dating long and after careful consideration he decided a pair of gloves would strike the right note...romantic but not too personal.

Accompanied by his girlfriend’s younger sister, he went to Sears and bought a pair of white gloves. The younger sister purchased a pair of panties for herself.

During the wrapping the clerk mixed up the items and the sister got the gloves and the girlfriend got the panties. Without checking the contents, the young man sealed the package and mailed it to his girlfriend, along with this note:

Darling,
I chose these because I noticed that you are not in the habit of wearing any when we go out in the evening. If it had not been for your sister, I would have chosen the long ones with buttons, but she wears short ones that are easy to remove. These are a delicate shade but the saleslady I bought them from showed me the pair she had been wearing for the last few weeks and they were hardly soiled. I had her try yours on for me and she looked really smart in them.

I wish I was there to put them on you for the first time, as no doubt other hands will come in contact with them before I have a chance to see you again. When you take them off, remember to blow in them before putting them away, as they will naturally be a little damp from wearing. Just think how many times I will kiss them during the coming year. I hope you will wear them for me on Friday night.

All my love...

P.S. The latest style is to wear them folded down with a little fur showing.

“Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.” I said. --”Coco” Chanel

Please feel free to forward this to all of your online friends.

All my love,
Kara

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. --Calvin Trillin

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Kara Oh is the author of
Men Made Easy
Marriage Made Easy
Women Made Easy
How To Capture His Heart (A dating guide - coming soon)

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Kara Oh
P.O. Box 21803
Santa Barbara, CA 93121
805-687-2448