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  • Thanksgiving Thoughts

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    Bettina Adragna
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    It occurred to me yesterday that I can be just as grateful for future, unknown blessings as for the blessings I now have. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

  • Dream: New York Beach Photos

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    I had an interesting dream last night. I understand if dream-journal stuff may not be very interesting to people who haven’t had the dream, but I thought I’d post this, since I thought it was unusually cool. I was driving around with my Waze maps app, and somehow I got lost and ended up in…

  • “Today is a gift.”

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    It occurred to me today, on a more emotional level, how I worry so much about the future, wanting to prepare for it emotionally, but now that I’ve looked at some experiences and had some new ones and thought about that, I realize it’s really almost impossible to prepare yourself emotionally for your future –…

  • Po’okela

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    In other news, the show I was in this past spring, “The Inspector General” at The Actors’ Group,  won a Po’okela award! This is a local community theatre award in Hawaii. I’m pleased to have been part of a Po’okela-winning show, as you can see in this photo from the award ceremony night.

  • Immortal, Ephemeral

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    I was thinking in the car yesterday about how my two loves, writing and theatre, are opposites, in a way. Writing, if you are lucky, is a method of immortality, especially for someone like me who doesn’t want to have physical children. Through writing, we can read the thoughts of someone from thousands of years…

  • Wahiawa: Remembah Wen

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    My newest project is a role in a community-based theatre production called “Wahiawa: Remembah Wen.” It is truly a play for and about Wahiawa. I’m basically going to be representing myself as a military spouse and unique personality. I’m excited to be doing something really different for my third production on-island.  I’ve been able to…

  • Positivity with wisdom is a bittersweet delight

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    I was thinking today about my seventeen-year-old self, and how part of me wants to get back to that. Then trying to justify the recent years of sadness with “Well, I’ve learned lessons,” and whatever.Then I realized – why can’t I just go back to that?True, I don’t want to lose whatever I’ve learned in…

  • Pagan Humanism

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    I think I have found another marker on my path. (My spiritual path, that is.) I am reading a book called “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” by Greg Epstein. It is truly inspiring. The book deals with a positive philosophy, or the term that the author likes to borrow, “life-stance,”…

  • Hymn for the Solstice

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    Bettina Adragna
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    I am trapped beneath my blankets. I am crying out for sight. I am afraid of the darkness Blinding my eyes. I long to see the world again, Color, shape and form. I long to gain my sight back. I want to see once more.

  • More on the Mother/Lover

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    I was thinking recently again, “What is a childfree, pagan woman to do about the Mother stage of Maiden/Mother/Crone?” One thing I just realized is that part of it is growing up enough to be in charge of your own life. I don’t know if this part is as relevant, considering that the Maiden is…