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Not just Valentine's Day
2009-02-11 06:39:00
Valentine's Day is no different than last Tuesday. What?!What I mean is we should take every day (every moment we have together) as precious! Not just special days, holidays and occasions.Put some extra special thought into the day (everyday).Do something to make a smile (everyday).Plan something fun (everyday).A nice meal together (everyday).A surprise (doesn't need to cost money) (everyday).Everyday, including Valentine's Day, your anniversary, and birthday.At least take 5 minutes and write a love letter. Aren't they worth it? Of course they are.
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The only reason to write love letters
2008-12-11 16:29:00
It?s a glimpse into the romance of John and Abigail Adams; their love and life revealed in thousands of letters ? prompted (in part) by distance.They used words to replace warmth, to stand-in for sight and as a temporary trade for tender touch. Then one day?They wrote no more letters to one another. There was no need?they were together.I wonder if there is another 1000 love letters somewhere in a chest under lock and key, because distance is not the only reason to write, right?Write ... love letters!When you're away for sure, but also...Because you want to create a smileBecause you want to enjoy the many benefitsBecause you want your love to be remembered
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How often do you say "Thank You" to the one you love?
2008-11-27 17:57:00
I know you?re thankful for plenty, but how often do you say it to the one you love?Of course you say thank you to the obvious things like in response to, ?pass the stuffing.? But this is more a matter of basic courtesy, because you?ve been taught good manners.This is not what I?m talking about.You'll also probably say thank you to big things like if you?re given a new car, a new computer, or a surprise party.?Thank you, honey!?You better say thank you and in this case - you probably really mean it. After all, you were just substantially gifted.This is not what I?m talking about.What I?m talking about is this: deliberately take notice of the little things like the smile, the kiss, or the thoughtful question or compliment. Don?t take a single thing for granted. Say thank you. If you don?t say it now, you may forget. And before you know it a whole lifetime will have passed and 1000 Thank You-s that could have been -- never were.Small (but extremely valuable) opportunities lost.St...
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How to make writing love letters a tradition
2008-11-13 23:14:00
Okay, let?s get right to the point. You should write love letters because it will bring you (and your true love) many lifelong rewards. Besides, it?s not that hard, especially with my simple love letter WRITE-ing technique. But will you?Will you write a love letter today, another next week and another the week after? Are you willing to make writing love letters a new tradition?Don?t answer that. We'll come back to that question in a moment.Tra?di?tion - an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior. ~ WebsterAssuming Webster?s correct, you?ll engage in a pattern of thought, action or behavior if that thought, action or behavior is one of three things:Inherited.Established.Customary.We ?re talking about writing love letters, so unless I?m completely in the dark, it?s not a custom ? at least here in the good old USA. So we can scratch that one off our list, because you?ll never get started if you wait for it to become customary.Now I?m going to make a...
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Make Your Love Letters Fun
2008-10-15 16:52:00
Start by asking yourself this question: "What are the things we have the most fun doing together?" List as many one-word answers to your question as possible... just jot them down quickly, one after another until you can't think of anymore. Read through your list and pick the Top 10 items... Top 20 if it's a long list. Then create a word find puzzle, print it out and stuff it inside a love letter.Play the puzzle and then spend the next couple weeks enjoying each other... and all your fun ideas.Here's some of the things I put on my list:Put on some music. Dance.Buy (or write) a crossword puzzle. Play.Bake a cake. Eat.Have a party. Mingle.Work in the yard. Dig.Snuggle up with a good book. Read.Rent a movie. Watch.Dust off those games. Laugh.Pick out a new color. Paint.Read the travel section. Dream.Grab a pen. Write.Find a blank pad. Draw.
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All that?s within you
2008-10-13 16:43:00
Your hopes and dreams, merely an unwritten story. Your love, simply hearsay ... a fairy-tale unless given freely? with a pen, with a kiss.Write your story, reveal your soul; share your words in a letter, a love letter.Make it interesting..."If you were a landscape you would have wide open prairies (your understanding)with lush green grass and patches of wild flowers everywhere (your easy nature and your beauty)."Make it fun...Empty your wants, needs and desires onto your pad. Write about your hopes and dreams. Make them colorful and exciting. Try something new. Keep writing. Surprise yourself and your true love with what?s inside you? perhaps things buried deep, things forgotten or just discovered.Maybe writing comes easy, maybe not. But one thing is for sure: not writing is no cure. You must write today, tomorrow and the next. Keep writing, challenge yourself. Use a metaphor today, tomorrow an allegory and the next day, irony.
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No Regrets
2008-10-07 15:55:00
Look around.The world is filled with couples just getting by, doing what they always do, saying what they always say and acting like they always act. Where has that kind of "status quo" behavior led them? Not too far. Everyday couples endure stress and hardship and far too many split.There is a solution, but few takers.Why? Is it really that hard? How hard is it to put down that book, or turn off the TV, to skip the game, stop surfing the web, or to say 'No!' to working late? Is stepping out of the norm that difficult? Is it really that hard!?Well, maybe it is. But isn?t it worth it?Relationships are not easy. They take work. They require long hours of devotion, literally a lifetime of pursuit. They need constant attention and nurturing, looking after. They require you to experience pain, suffering, hardship, loss and sacrifice.There! I said it. Relationships take ?hard work? and they cause ?pain.? I know it?s not a popular thing to say, but stay with me. I?m working on a point.Ye...
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I Don?t Want To Write Love Letters ?
2008-09-24 15:19:00
Some say, ?I don?t want to write love letters?,? because?I?m too busyI just don?t want toThey wouldn?t want it anywayI?m too embarrassed, I can?t writeIt takes too longI think about it, but always forget or get distractedThere are probably many more reasons too.So what?s the big deal, why even write one! Why make the case for writing love letters?Because I happen to think it?s very important. How important is your relationship to you? Pretty important, it?s maybe the most important thing in your life ? more important than your job, your friends, your car, your house, any of your things and most of your relationships too.So if it truly is that important ? what can you do to ensure you keep it safe, nurture it, and secure it, so that it lasts? forever? I?ll tell you.Go out of your way to learn your true love?s wants, needs and desires. Then work to deliver them ? and that?s not just a one time assignment, because those wants needs and desire are ever-changing.So be prepared for li...
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The Anatomy of a Love Letter
2008-09-15 19:15:00
Most letters have the following basic format: a date, a greeting, a body, a closing, a signature and optionally, a postscript (PS).DatePut a date on all your letters. That date ties the letter to a specific time in your life and relationship. You?ll be glad you did, especially when you?re digging through those old letters 25 years from now.GreetingYour greeting should match the context of your letter and maybe even more importantly ? your personality. For example, if you?re writing about her beauty (context = ?beauty?) then you might greet her as ?My beautiful Linda.? Get the idea? But make sure that your greeting is natural. When you write your love letter, you must not transform into some other person. The key is to be you. Just greet her in your letter the way you would greet her in person. Then it won?t seem fake, stuffy or forced.BodyThe body of your letter can be as short as one paragraph or as long as 10 or more pages, depending on what you have to say, of course. There are n...
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Writing Frequent Love Letters
2008-03-13 13:41:00
It is amazing that such a simple gesture as writing a love letter could have such a profound impact on you and your true love. Not to mention all those that are watching you, observing your commitment to love.Writing Frequent Love Letters Builds excitement that?s not easily quenched. Each letter, when prepared with care, is like a surprise gift, tucked behind the couch just out of sight, that appeared out of nowhere on Christmas morning. Instills a joy that can endure the storms of life, and that can even place an upward curve on sweet lips that have been crying all day. A couple heartfelt words on a sheet of paper can work wonders.Recovers happiness lost during the clutter of busy days, screaming kids, yelling bosses, traffic jams, spilled coffee or whatever the crazy episode of the day happened to be. All the worries of the day melt away when you know someone loves you, no matter what!Creates hope even where hope never existed. A word of encouragement ? a simple ?I support you,? ?...
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How Can I Help You?
2008-03-12 15:20:00
Maybe you need some inspiration for your love letter, a way to find a great opening line, how to write the middle, or how to close elegantly.Anyone can write a love letter regardless of their writing ability ? that is a fact!But choosing the best words is not always easy.But it can be. That is, if you know what to do. Fortunately, there are simple and timeless directions on letter-writing that I stumbled across a couple years ago and ever since, writing of all kinds has been natural and easy. Even, of course, writing love letters. With these techniques, I am now able to write love letters in minutes ? not hours, and even books in days ? not weeks or years.And you can too. I?ll show you how.I adapted the techniques learned from all my studies into a simple 5 step system that will help you write a beautiful love letter in just 5 minutes ? guaranteed! It will work, regardless of your level of creativity and writing ability, I promise. Everyone who loves can write a love letter, every...

Vote For Me
2007-11-10 20:15:00
I took this poem and entered it in Poetry .com's monthly poetry contest. Now I'm no poet, but I did win their editor's choice award... although I'm not real sure how many others (hundreds or thousands) won that same award. They did say I was in the top 12% of the thousands of entries. Not too bad, I guess, for a first-time poet. Take a look and vote for me if you like it.
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Sample Love Letter, "If You Were A Landscape"
2007-11-01 18:56:00
If you were a landscape...You would have wide open prairies (your understanding) with lush green grass and patches of Wild Flowers everywhere (your easy nature and your beauty).Although you sit under partly sunny skies, (your wonderful joy that's shaded by hardship), your summit allows a view of the horizon that is so clear and beautiful, (your optimism and hope endure), and...On it you can almost see forever (your dreams coming true).There is a strong tree (your husband) by a King-sized river (our source of strength and nourishment from God), that sustains you and your gardens (your children so beautiful and tender).So wonderful and inviting that all who dwell there, rejoice! (Your family loves to be with you)
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How To Find Free Love Letter Samples
2007-10-26 17:19:00
You would never copy someone else's love letter and send it to your true love,But you may be interested in reading someone else's Love Letter for inspiration...BUT, where do you find these FREE SAMPLE LOVE LETTERS!Well, stop by this Blog and I'll provide them for you from time to time... or click on the "Samples " label on the sidebar for a complete list of all past posts...Or you could go find them yourself...There are so many love letter samples available to you, right now, for free. They are out there... and there are hundreds of them... maybe even thousands of them...Click on the image above... and search Google's digital book library... (e.g. "Love Letter Samples")... and you'll find lots of books bursting with "Love Letter Samples." Now some that you find will not be free... you may only get a preview...Tip: To find the free books, you need to use the Advanced Book Search and add "0" to "1923" in the "Publication Date" fields. The ones you'll find from this search are...
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Love Letter Inspiration from Petrarch
2007-10-23 22:53:00
THE stars, the elements, and Heaven have madeWith blended powers a work beyond compare;All their consenting influence, all their care,To frame one perfect creature lent their aid.Whence Nature views her loveliness display'dWith sun-like radiance sublimely fair ;Nor mortal eye can the pure splendour bear :I've, sweetness, in unmeasured grace array'd.The very air illumed by her sweet beamsBreathes purest excellence ; and such delight,That all expression far beneath it gleams.No base desire lives in that heavenly light,Honour alone and virtue!?fancy's dreamsNever saw passion rise refined by rays so bright.CAPEL Lofft. THE stars, the heaven, the elements, I ween,Put forth their every art and utmost careIn that bright light, as fairest Nature fairWhose like on earth the sun has nowhere seen;So noble, elegant, unique her mien,Scarce mortal glance to rest on it may dare.Love so much softness and such graces rareShowers from those dazzling and resistless een.The atmosphere, pervaded an...
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Love Letter Inspiration from Shakespeare
2007-10-23 22:15:00
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A Love Letter Titled, "Recapture"
2007-10-23 03:53:00
I was sitting in the chair, waiting? when he came in, placed it in the machine and switched on the monitor? he asked me to sit back and just watch... ?It will start in a moment, Sir?? Literally seconds later as the images came across the screen and the music started to play? I could feel a rush of adrenaline; my shoulders started to shrug and I was fighting back tears? wishing I was with you, experiencing this moment with you? not here. An hour passed, but it felt like only minutes? and then he switched off the monitor, pulled out the tape and handed me? our wedding, captured on film. I didn?t think I could feel that way twice? at least not so soon? it was just a few week?s earlier that I stood adjacent to you on the alter and you uttered my favorite quote of all time, ?I do.? Such powerful emotions? I don?t know if it was the music that played softly in the background, your eyes that looked up as you stepped out of the limousine, as if you were looking at me through the sc...
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The Presentation Of Your Love Letter
2007-10-19 17:30:00
... is maybe just as important as the content. If you deliver your love letter on a coffee-stained napkin, I?m sure it will be received and she may even say she loves it, but only because it came from you and only because she loves you... But it just won?t compare with the very same letter delivered? In a beautiful envelope, With your custom artwork on the front, A love stamp positioned (just so) on the top-right corner,Little tiny love sayings all over the outside, and A special surprise bulging out as she opens it... (Maybe a ring or a ticket to the opera).Get the idea?Even before she gets to the letter? she is so excited? You?re making it fun and exciting! How can a silly little napkin compare. Even if the actually letter was mediocre? the whole experience was just so much better? it was superior? It was memorable. Well just so you know? there are lots of ways to make your love letter exciting to open? and it doesn?t always have to be an actual handwritten letter inside o...
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The Art of Love Letter Writing
2007-10-18 14:51:00
"The best directions for good writing are: Write as you speak, write just what you have to say, write exactly the things you feel, exactly the words you would say if your correspondent were sitting by you?in short, to use Lady Hesketh's phrase, write 'what comes uppermost;' so your letters will be true, fresh, life-like and interesting.The best direction that could be given for letter-writing is, to ask you to call imagination to your aid. Fancy your friend or correspondent to be sitting by you, say what you would say if such were the case, and then write it down. Do this, and your letter cannot fail to be what a letter ought to be,?a picture of your thoughts, interesting to your correspondent in exactly the same proportion as he or she is interested in yourself or your concerns.No one speaks in the longest words he can pick out of the dictionary; no one speaks in studied phrases, such as may be read in pedantic books; and no one ought to write in such.The best writing for letter...
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Your Love Letters Are Almost Poetic
2007-10-17 16:21:00
The ideas that you pen in your love letters are the basis for your next (or your first) poem. I recently wrote a love letter to my sweetheart... and by accident the last two lines rhymed... so I decided to exercise my poetic ability. That love letter was a one pager that was about where I met my wife. After some editing, this poem was the result:Home-town love found over a hot dog counter,Amid fading names and faces?The girl would become my wife despite the stage.An encounter from early dreams,with mountain tops and ocean scenes? once of age.But breathtaking reality that momentous day,Altered the course of my life.That day, in my home-town,over the hot dog counter? I met my wife.
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8 Love Letter Ideas
2007-10-17 00:57:00
Write a Love Letter using one or all of these Love Letter Ideas ... or come up of with some of your own... be creative,"...you?re limited only by your unlimited imagination."Just because: Write about whatever moves you? think of your special someone and ask yourself who, what, where, why, when, how. Write from your heart.Top 10: ??Reasons I love you,? ??Places we?ve been,? ??Things you say,? ??Adorable habits,? ?etc??Best of the month: Slow down and take notice. Record the things you love most about her in your journal. One day each month, review them and pick your favorite. Now write her a love letter?Treasure hunt: Buy something nice and hide it. Write a love letter a day? hinting to its location.Secret message: Write a letter with a dual message. It?s just a regular old letter until you apply the decoder ? then you see the love letter appear.Plot: Remake your favorite romantic movie or book with you and your true love as the leading man and lady. Blueprint the book, and send ...

A Love Letter About... The Way Her Hair Falls Across Her Cheek
2007-10-15 16:44:00
Slow down and take notice. Soak up every minute you have. Enjoy..."The way her hair falls across her cheek, her dimples, her smile, the way she moves, talks, and laughs. Remember the jokes, the stories, and the dreams."I know you could list a thousand things? if you just took the time. Take the time and record the best things in your journal. One day each month, review them and pick your favorite one.Now write her a love letter?"The way your hair falls across your cheeks? softly, lovely, ??
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Love Letter Ideas, Tips, and Gifts
2007-10-12 16:57:00
Amazon.com Widgets Create your love letters in new and exciting ways... DO Handwrite your love letters on notes, napkins, the fridge, or even on pancakes. Paint them, sing them, maybe even record them on audio or video. Get creative. You can do it.DON'T type your love letters and send them in emails. Unless you put plenty of thought and creativity into it... you will hear, "(Yawn) oh, that's nice, thanks." ... like bringing home flowers only because you tripped over the flower lady.Go out of your way... and you will hear,"OH! (pause) (tears) (kiss)," and then softly, "...thank you, baby."Other good love letter ideas: handwrite your love letter, put it in an envelope, place a love stamp on it and send it through the mail; write her a short story, write her a book (yes, you can); or...Create a Blog, for her eyes only. No worries, it's FREE and EASY. Click the "Create Blog" link above and then follow the instructions. Add some handpicked gifts for her to choose from (your trea...
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Love Letters of an Actress
2007-10-11 02:12:00
Looking for some free sample love letters?Read "Love Letters of an Actress" By Elsie Janis, D. Appleton and Company... Elsie (the actress) gets love letters from a diverse crowd of men: an infatuated boy, a lawyer, a composer, an actor, a platonic friend, a millionaire, a literary man, a farmer, and a stranger.This little book was published in 1913, so you can download it for free.The book ends with this love poem:Apres- Tout In each life there is a Something That remains the unattained. In each heart there is a longing For Something it has not gained. So we go on madly struggling In some future love we dwell, Yet they say that for each struggler There's a Someone. Who can tell?
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Love Letter Inspiration From Your Journal
2007-10-10 15:29:00
"Ah man, that looks good," one of my faves... mental note, "make cider donuts this weekend with kids."Minutes later, my boss calls and I run off to fight a fire... mental note lost forever.Stuff happens all day long, everyday: mouth-watering cider donut recipes, ideas for that book you always dreamed of writing, your most romantic idea ever...How are you going to remember it all with life coming at you so fast? Write it down in a journal or else it may just be lost forever... or at least forgotten and not remembered until it's too late.Three Easy Steps...Step 1: Buy a small journal that you can carry with with you everywhere you go. Yes, everywhere... you never know when that big idea is going to show up.Step 2: When you get an idea, see a recipe, anything... simply pull out your journal, date and number the top-right of the page, mark the left-hand column with a Tag, like: "recipe", "business idea", "love letter topic", "phone number",... and then record your item. Step 3: Don...
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