Be Real Magazine: Issue Four & Issue Five



	Future Issues of Be Real Magazine
in this issue Scintillations Growing My Own Flowers Letting Go Embracing Inner Child Seven Naissance Letters to My Younger Self Books That Changed My Life Almost Famous Photographers Moody Girl Visualize This! Universe Spoke To Me First Time I Had Sex Real Dream Interpretation Contributors Table Of Contents previous issues Issue One: Change Issue Two: Balance in every issue Tell Us What You Think! How To Subscribe New Writers & New Photographers future issues Issue Four: Goddess & Issue Five: Bravery	Goddess Issue Will Be Released Mid-Summer 2001 Rough Drafts due June 15, 2001 The theme for the Summer Issue will be "Goddesses". It will be about exploring the deeply feminine within all of us, recognizing and owning our divinity, and celebrating being women. What images does the word "goddess" stir in you? Do you have a favorite goddess from mythology that has influenced you in your modern day life? Do you notice women who seem goddess-like? Do you daydream and doodle pictures of goddesses? Are you a goddess yourself? Please share your written and artistic creations about Goddesses with us. Long or short articles/stories are welcome. Share your beauty, too -- Scan your watercolors, pen and ink drawings, and other artwork to help illustrate the issue (digital format is easiest for us to work with). Plus, we would love to include any of your brief thoughts and feelings about the subject. If you have an idea that you think would make a good story, but you're not sure, please email and ask us. We love to encourage people to write. Bravery Issue Will Be Released Mid-Autumn 2001 Rough drafts due September 15, 2001 The theme for the Fall issue will be "Bravery". We are all brave as we face the various daily challenges that life spills out in front of us. Sometimes it takes great amounts of courage just to make it through a single day. Other times, we feel like we can slay any dragon and then spit fire ourselves. Often we are unaware of our bravery until someone points it out to us: How are we able to handle such painful events with such apparent ease and grace? How can we extend our our hands out to help others, when we ourselves are fighting our own battles? Reflect on the meaning of bravery in YOUR life, and please share some of those reflections with us. If you feel like you're not brave at all, please share those thoughts too (when a person admits their vulnerabilities they pave the way for all of us to examine and embrace our humanity with compassion). Also in the upcoming Bravery Issue we will be including a segment on Masks. Many of us within the Be Real tribe have had the privilege of creating masks of our own faces. This was a wonderfully creative process as well as a powerful experience, as we continue to question when and why we wear the metaphoric masks in our lives. If you have a photo of a mask you've made or a story to tell about it, we would like to see it or hear it. Honor your spirit and tell us about your experiences of finding unimaginable bravery within yourself. Any tales you have to tell are invited to be told. Thank you for contributing to Be Real Magazine. You make a difference.


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