The Fourth of July, 2017

What a day we celebrate in a year during which our Republic is once again in jeopardy and we are in fear of all of the gains made by those who went before being trashed.  And – we have only ourselves to blame. To celebrate the Fourth of July with Donald Trump as president of…

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In December 53,244 readers in June 84,437

The blog is growing steadily. It is now time to begin to accept advertisers as the blog becomes a contributor to the world-wide story of our history of human beings and what we are doing – our priorities – and anything else we find relevant. We are looking for your suggestions as to how to…

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Corporate vs Democratic Structures

“It is great to have a business man as president”.  “Maybe now things will get done in a corporate way.”  etc. etc. Do you really want the United States of America to be a Corporate entity – like USA Corp.?  Or the General Motors of America?  Or even Google – scratch that – Alphabet, inc.?…

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How to Look 50 at 80 years old!

We took advantage of Bettina Network Hedge Schools and stayed at a house where we wanted to know the wife’s beauty secrets.  We’ve seen her for years and thought she was at most 60 years old.  When we discovered she was actually 79 we almost flipped out so we immediately made reservations and said in…

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Our Oracle speaks about Trump, Pence et al…

We just couldn’t resist.  With everyone chiming in about all of this we thought it was time for our oracle to speak: “What a grand mess!  Developed from human greed and the need for power to bring about a world in which one can wallow instead of being industrious about and responsible for the welfare…

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Origami: Art or Algorithms

by: Elise Miller Member of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community Our son, Ravi, first became interested in origami at age three and a half-years-old, when we followed the instructions in Curious George for making a paper boat. In the book, George had made boats out of the newspapers that he was supposed to be delivering…

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Thank You for Your Support!

A very big thank you for all the support we received as we went about managing the Bettina Moving Sale in Watertown, Massachusetts. So many of you came out and looked and bought and ate cookies – horrible store-bought cookies made without the benefit of organic flour, organic cocoa, etc.  I warned them not to…

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A Bettina Network Moving Sale

A BETTINA MOVING SALE IN WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS 104 Coolidge Hill Road – Unit 6 (A Town House)            May 6th – 10am through 4pm to May 7th – 2pm through 6pm You are invited for tea from 4-6pm on May 7th when all prices for the remaining items will be reduced by 50% For pictures…

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Comey/Head of FBI/QuidProQuo?

Listening to the hearings on Monday was quite emotional.  Getting feedback from many – it was amazing to hear that most of us agreed on the same thing.  That is highly unusual.  We tend to be a disagreeable lot! Most striking about those hearings was to know and remember that James Comey came out with…

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