HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Dear Members,

Last year at this time, Alemama led us in a very sweet candle lighting on New Year's Day. I would like to follow suit this year and ask everyone who would like to participate to light a long-burning candle or fire, and then offer a prayer here with us.

I'm going to light my 24-hour candle at midnight tomorrow and join in the offerings sometime Thursday.

Please help celebrate our victories, strengthen our hope, and join in our solidarity!

Love and joy,

Christine

Well, in this part of the world business has closed down for 2008 and the partying has already begun. It is about 5pm New Year's Eve. Candles are a bit 'iffy' for us at this time of year, with our houses opened up at night to let in the cool night breezes and strong, hot winds and total bans on fire, and movement of vehicles in paddocks and Reserves State wide. All our firefighters outside the metro area are volunteers so we have to look after them. They want to see in the New Year with a beer in their hand instead of a fire hose, and that's the way we like it. Let's hope the loony, inevitable firebugs are busy somewhere un-flammable!

Even the Bliss Balm has been a bit runny!

It must be hard for you northerners to believe how different it is in Oz.

Cheers

Louise

ps Happy New Year to everybody.

Been fighting for my life with dreaded flu for last, don't know how many days now since about the 21st.

Just wishing you all a happy new year.

Sometimes youre holding someone else's heart in your hands. You can drop that heart & bruise it. You can squash that heart & hurt it. Or you can stomp on it & totally annihalate it. You stomp on that heart or bruise it. It can forever be changed ♥

What a nice idea Christine! Happy New Year to your and yours and all the members of this wonderful forum. I will be thinking of all of you when I light my candle.

Warmest regards and my best wishes for a Happy and healthy 2009!

~Mae

Happy Happy New Year to come to all!
I will light my candle and think of all the wonderful, lovely, supportive women here and especially of you Christine for all your amazingness.
Thank you to all!!!
Kiki

Christine,

I remember doing this last year - I can't believe that a year has already passed. It is such a lovely idea. I will be lighting my candle as well.

My success has been a victory to me. I owe it all to you, to your books, to this forum, and to the wonderful members who so generously share their ideas and support.

Happy 2009 to all!

Goldfinch

'Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well'

we will most likely have a roaring fire going most of the day tomorrow. we usually have a pizza picnic in our living room in front of the fireplace on new years. silly tradition, but its what we do.
I will think of all of you, and especially christine, feeling so thankful to you for sharing all of your work and wisdom. you've changed my life in so many ways. without Wholewoman, I doubt we ever would've brought our granolababy into the world. talk about victory!

anyway, happy new year to all of my wholewoman sisters!

and feel better sue!

Happy new year to all! I thank you all for your wonderful advice, hope and inspiration. I don't know what I would have done without this wonderful website and all of you great women. I've had some uncomfortable days, and I've got lots more ahead (I'm 36 weeks pregnant), but I'm looking forward to meeting my bundle of joy and doing all the exercises postpartum. Thanks again for providing me with hope through my dark moments. All the best to everyone in 2009!

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Christine, Happy New Year to you and to all you dear women who gather in unity here!

In celebration of all of you who have risen in victory, and in admiration of all of your strengths, I too will offer a light and a prayer with you this year. May the warmth and light your candles cast, just like the warmth and enlightenment that abounds here, reflect what we all hope and work for - brighter days ahead, throughout this coming new year.

I am so grateful to have found you. Thank you for leaving the light on, my whole woman sisters.

Love and Light,
♥~Blue

Can't believe we are here again.
Peace be with you all.

Christine and All,
Happy and Healthy New Year.
My candle is lit.
Rose

On this bright and clear New Year’s Day I’m feeling profound gratitude for having been able to serve in this way. Thank you with all my heart for believing in this work. You’ve trusted me thus far and I want to assure you that the work has only just begun! I have every reason to believe that Blue will eventually get her wish, as well as countless other women.

The work is deeper than I ever knew and my wish for 2009 is to have a broader platform from which to help restore the sacred feminine - an essential balance upon which our very survival depends.

To the strength and health of all women!

Christine

Dear good WW fellow friends,

Thank you for sharing, thank you for advising, thank you for your kindnesses over these past months.

Thank you Louise, for writing The Two Doors.

Thank you Nikelle, for playing such beautiful music.

A very special thank you for Christine Kent, who has educated so many, that there is an alternative, for me, the only alternative.

May you all have the best of health in 2010.

Oceanblue, who loves you ♥♥♥