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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, December 24th, 2010

WE wish you much joy, happiness and love!  

We wish for you the care and comfort 
         of being surrounded by friends, family 
         and those who need you and yours!


If we could give to you any gift in the universe, we would give you the joy of giving!  Why? To to be able to give, you must know how to love – must be able to love enough that you give without thinking about what is being given back to you!  It is the gift of this holiday season, the one for which it was created!


TO GIVE – 
     is the ground on which the Bettina Network is built!                                                               
    
To give, unconditionally, is to gain the ability to see truth.


        Give of yourself to others.  You can afford to stop when you see someone in need 
                                          – it won’t ruin your life or your career.

    Order your life so that much of it is engaged in giving!  
           
            To give is a natural part of to live.  


     To give does not mean giving billions to institutionally structured charities – they will only continue this society 
moving in the wrong direction. 


                  To give is a direct act.


 There are the homeless – why can’t we give them homes?
              There are the hungry – why can’t we feed them?
      There are the addicted – why can’t we expect them to give to others?        
       There are those without proper clothing – why can’t we clothe them?

there are those who need little things to facilitate their lives – a ride to someplace they need to be, but don’t have the ability to get there – a conversation with someone who will really listen – honest feedback on what they are doing which is leading them down the wrong path – friends to be with because they have none and don’t know how to change that – a circle of people with whom they differ so they can understand what life means to those in a different place –

The sin we commit, 

which wrecks havoc in this world, 


is what we do to shore up our identity as better than ‘those people’.  

We are particularly careful of our time, so we give to those in places where we think we will benefit.  We work so hard to have the ‘right’ friends, the ‘right’ job’ to live in the most ‘correct’ neighborhood, to have our children go to the ‘best’ schools. We do what we can to keep those out of our neighborhood who would lessen our self-esteem. All of this is tragically life consuming. 

Instead, see those in need, dying, grieving, lost. don’t push them aside –    
                                      You have time!!          

We are rushing toward a horrific end —
we are becoming more isolated.

We are terrified of the germs we might catch from one another
We raise children to inherit FEAR.
Our industries make billions trading on FEAR

We spend billions trying to stay young.
But, in reality,
we only manage to hide from ourselves,
for a little while,
the fact that we will grow old and die.

AND SO WE WARP OUR LIVES.

We keep the sick, the maimed, the dying, in another place so we can go about our lives as   though we are immortal and always young  and healthy!
         
Keep those who are old away from us! “Assisted Living?”
         We don’t want to see them change!

We wish for you the ability to get out of the crowd working hard to store up treasures which moths and rust do corrupt and into which thieves can break through and steal,

for where your heart is, there also is your treasure.


We wish for you a beautiful world.  One in which the flowers are neither all lilies, nor all roses, no matter how beautiful those flowers may be.  We wish for you a world full of millions of different flowers – blooming profusely.


We wish for you a world of people who take the time 
                                      to care for one another – 
                         who even take the time to care for the stranger.  


We wish for you a world and a life full of
     the love and the joy which comes                  
                                    FROM GIVING!!! 

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From a Guest on Cayenne Pepper

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010


“Before I get swept away by the holidays, I want to thank you for a wonderful blog. Keep up the good work, I’ve used so many of your ideas and I am very grateful. Some have been real life savers.

We also had a wonderful stay at a bed & breakfast in Harvard Square Cambridge for about the umpteenth time. Each time I don’t think it can get better and each time something new and different happens that makes me want to return soon.

This is about your blog on Cayenne Pepper. I read it, thought it was interesting, but didn’t follow through until I returned to the bed & breakfast, which now keeps a bottle of cayenne pepper at the door as you come in or leave. They do it because several guests have requested the cayenne pepper, since that is the last thing you would think to pack and I’m not sure it would get through security anyway. (By the way your blog on “Security at the Airport” is a stitch – probably because there is so much truth in it that it is really funny).

I got into the habit of sprinkling cayenne pepper in my shoes everytime I went out and it saved my life. Travel is hard on my feet and I come home with aching pinched feet. My own fault from the shoes I insist on wearing. This time, I had no problems, walked all over and found lots of energy without aching feet. I don’t know what the cayenne pepper does, but I’ve used it constantly since returning home and it has changed my way of living.

Thank you! By the way I was at the table when the folks from Canada talked about Cayenne Pepper as they sprinkled it in their running shoes several years ago before going out the door to join the hordes of runners for the Boston Marathon. It has taken this long for me to take up the suggestion, even though I saw the guy come back who didn’t have to crawl into the house and crawl up the stairs to his room. He was still walking upright and stopped to talk to me without seeming to be exhausted. Well, I now know how that feels.

enjoy your holidays and thank you so much for the ideas in Bettina’s Blog. hope you continue it for many more years and I can read it for many more years. As soon as I get a minute I am going to go over that blog for other ideas that might help me get through life a little easier.”

ed. note: Thanks for your comments. It is nice to know someone is out there reading and benefitting from what we write.

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Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk – or email us.

Ed. Note: Members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community can contribute to the Bettina Network Blog whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.

Volunteer with Bettina Network Foundation, inc. to work estate sales; to help move items from one home to another; to contribute your ideas on how we can better use our resources in this effort to relieve and eliminate homelessness and poverty. We also need photographers; designers; and more. However much or little time you have, we are grateful.

Send your event information to be included in Bettina Network’s Menu of Events to: bettina-network@comcast.net

This is a curated blog so you cannot write your responses at the end of each entry. TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email bettina-network@comcast.net or info@bettina-network.com

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