CRAFTERS and others – A Way to Share!

Join Bettina Network, inc. and become a member of this great Lifestyle Community.  Join with Musicians, Artists, Theologians, Designers, Nutritionists, Doctors, Lawyers, Business Executives, Philathropists, Nurses, Secretaries, Videographers and others to become one great educational institution – become one of the Bettina Network Hedge Schools (patent pending). Use your homes to welcome guests who are…

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The ‘Sharing’ Community????

The first thing we note in that name – which has become attached to several kinds of businesses – is the fact that it is an extreme misnomer.  There is nothing “sharing” about that group of businesses.  Unless you call the lower to middle classes sharing their small assets and ideas in ways to make…

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Conspiracy Theories?

Breakfast at a Bettina Network Hedge School can be awesome as you talk to so many different people who come from amazing places with experiences that span the globe and includes ideas, history, remembrances and thought processes that sharpen your own. I would not trade being a part of Bettina Network Hedge Schools for anything.…

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Sandra Bland – Strange Fruit

Once upon a time, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” used to be from trees with green leaves, a trunk and branches growing up from the ground splattered with red. Today, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” is hanging from man-made trees with blue reflected all around. But look!  Isn’t that the old…

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Food and Pharma Connected?

copyright 2014 Bettina Network, inc. We had another one of those breakfasts and we are all still reeling, having put different backgrounds, experience, education, parts of the world together we came up with a startling conclusion: The discussion centered around Bettina Network’s attempt to keep Bettina Homes as organic as possible – in cleaning, food,…

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An Intensely Religious Week

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2014 Intensely Religious – how do we turn that into – gloriously  Spiritual!  I hope it is not the intensely religious who have brought about so much bigotry in the world and the gloriously Spiritual who have given us so much freedom!  Maybe my values are a bit screwed. It is…

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A Beautiful Meditation and Song

For a rare treat, click on the following YouTube recording. http://I Then Shall Live) Sometimes you hear a beautiful song with words which bring your life to a standstill and it fills you with beauty, strengthens your faith, and makes your day richer. This hymn created that for several of us.  We shared it back…

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Bettina Network, inc NEWS

copyright 2014 Bettina Network, inc. Bettina Network, inc. NEWS is a new addition to the Bettina Network Blog.  Appearing periodically, without timetable predictability, this is a way for you to keep up with all that we do – where you will find a Bettina person, event – some definitions and redefinitions of who we are…

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UBUNTU – I Am Because You Are

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 “I am not a saint – unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” – Mandela. …………………………………….If only that described all of us! The world is pouring out its grief, celebration, joy, gratitude, love for the life of Nelson Mandela. ………………………………………………………..Which has to make you…

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Remembering Niko

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 …”There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”…   —————————————Maya Angelou   A quote passed on to us by Dorothea Guild as she introduced the exhibit of Nicholas Michael Marinos’s art.   Marinos was Dorothea’s family priest, long-term friend and soul-mate from years past.  He was…

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