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WELCOME
Litare is a place where you can post positive news, share an incident that brought a moment of happiness, and express gratitude. Litare is also a place where you can come to read about good in the world — which can help change your mood or outlook if you’ve been having a hard day.

The news, comments, and offerings shared on Litare can be a big or little, recent or dated. You can write about something for which you are grateful, such as a small act of kindness, an unexpected synchronicity, the right thing happening at the right time, a stranger helping you in an unforeseen way, or something you even thought was “bad” that ended up changing your life for the better. You can post news of a charity or government program that is positively changing lives, touching you or those you know. You can post quotes that you find uplifting. You can write open thank-yous to people you were never able to thank personally.

You get the point of what Litare offers.

So please make an offering yourself: post something you find uplifting, for which you are grateful, which made you smile.

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HOW TO POST
Posting at Litare is easy and can be anonymous. There is no formal registration. However, the moderator must add your email address to the system in order for you to post.

Here's the process:
1. Email us at litare@kozacommunications.com to let us know you'd like to post. You don't need to put anything in the body of the email. You only need to do this once, no matter how many times you later post.

2. We will add your email to the system, and you'll receive a confirmation email that you've been added.*

3. From that same email address, email what you want to post to post@litare.posterous.com.
• The subject line of your email will become the headline of the post.
• The content of your email will become the post's content.
• Please remove your automatic signature from your email before sending, otherwise your contact information will become part of the post.
• If you would like your name to appear in your post, please use only your first name. Surnames and contact information will be removed by the moderator.

4. That's it! Your post will appear on Litare within minutes.

You can email text, photos, videos, and more anytime you want, and your email will become a posting on Litare.

Visit the Posterous FAQ page for more information.

*Please note: If you use an email address already associated with a Posterous account of your own, your username and icon will display on your post and at the bottom of this column. If you use an email address not associated with a Posterous account, your posts to Litare will be anonymous.

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WHY THIS SITE?
While there’s a lot of good that happens in the world, and many acts of kindness shown in matters great and small, the mainstream media tends to focus on the negative and ignore the positive. This focus on the negative only serves to pull us as individuals, and us as a society, downward. As philosophers have stated for centuries, the content of our thoughts, and the words, sounds, and images that reach our thoughts, influence our further thoughts and shape our experience of the world.

Simply put, the media’s myopic focus on the bad, the inhumane, and the negative affects us, casting a heavy shadow of gloom and doom on minds, hearts, and spirits. It’s hard to think or live positively when you’re inundated with media negativity.

We believe (as do many) that if we share good news and gratitude, our moods, our lives, and our world will improve. This is not anything new, in either a philosophic sense, or as a website. However, now, at a time when so many people are filled with fear, anger, and anxiety, every bit of positive news we spread can elevate the mood of individuals, and ultimately, individuals change the mood of the world and the world itself. It doesn’t take much effort to share the beautiful, the thoughtful, the considerate, the kindnesses, the gratitude, the good in our lives.

This website will be one small way to share, and perhaps serve as a reminder that we can bring the positive into our conversations, emails, and interactions throughout each day. This tends to make us feel better, and others feel better too.

~ Abby Fuzzhead, Litare Editor-in-Chief
~ Kelly Manjula Koza, Litare Founder

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THE WORD LITARE
The word litare is Latin; it means, at the simplest, “To make an offering.” Many translations describe it as “To make a successful offering”, suggesting that one is placating god(s) by giving the offering. However, this seems a very one-sided, outdated translation of the word, implying a sort of this-for-that mentality.

Offerings in the true sense are not commodities. Think about it: Butterflies don’t wake up and deliberate about whether they’ll “offer” the beauty of their wings to the ants, snails, rabbits, and people they encounter that day. Butterflies don’t make deals with your neighbors to come by and show their wings twice a day in exchange for food. Butterflies just are. We’re grateful for them. If we ignore them, and destroy their homes and food sources, butterflies don’t withhold their offerings, they just cease to exist. The natural order goes out of whack, and we wonder why we don’t see the beauty of butterfly wings.

If we think about it, humans are the same: We ourselves are offerings, with our own beauty, at whatever level. Our lives, and what we are, are offerings, and our interactions and what we give to others are offerings. When we forget this, the world tends to be out of balance, on the micro and macro levels. When we remember, when we are grateful, our gratitude enhances the beauty, power, and presence of our offerings, and of ourselves.

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THE FINE PRINT
Litare site owners, moderators, employees, and volunteers reserve the right to edit, delete, or decline to publish contributor posts, and to block or remove those considered to be spamming or abusing the Litare site, staff, or contributors. The views expressed in contributor posts are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of Litare.

This site is not intended to be a venue for promoting or reviewing businesses, and because of the potential for misuse, we ask that you refrain from naming businesses in your posts. We will remove business names from posts that come to our attention. Similarly, we ask that you limit your use of real names when thanking an individual. We don't want to prohibit or police postings using real names of individuals, but will monitor names and watch for signs of mis-use.

Our attorney will come up with something more wordy as a disclaimer in the future!

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SPONSORS AND ADMINS
Litare is currently sponsored and administered by Kelly Manjula Koza and Koza Communications. Abby Fuzzhead, Litare's Editor-in-Chief, is the cute canine in the photo.

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