{"id":76,"date":"2012-12-31T21:28:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-12-26T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T03:37:14","slug":"how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-regina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"How do you hold a moon beam in your hand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the other songs in <strong>The Sound of Music<\/strong> that really speaks to me is &#8220;How do you solve a problem like Maria?&#8221; Especially, how do you hold a moon beam in your hand??? Always very gently. With Regina I learned to expect the unexpected in a delightful, expanding way. She was able to go beyond the ordinary and make life more than what was originally given. A real blessing and gift.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one simple example of her own awareness of who she was: \u00a0About a year after I met her, she sent me a picture of herself with this inscription on the back. \u00a0&#8220;from That Naughty Girl, Donnamarie.&#8221; \u00a0That was when she still used her convent name as her name.<\/p>\n<p>She was not afraid to be &#8220;naughty,&#8221; \u00a0to live out on the edge, ask the challenging questions, push the limits, explore the edges of life. \u00a0Life was not a trivial matter for her, yet she lived a delightful life. \u00a0She was light-hearted. \u00a0Ready to laugh at self and life. \u00a0A moon beam.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Spirit, for Regina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s-VRyQprlu8\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Link to song: How do you Solve a Problem Like Maria.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the other songs in The Sound of Music that really speaks to me is &#8220;How do you solve a problem like Maria?&#8221; Especially, how do you hold a moon beam in your hand??? Always very gently. With Regina I learned to expect the unexpected in a delightful, expanding way. She was able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regina","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}