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  • ASHLEY WAGNER
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    • ABOUT
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      • Resume
      • Press
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      • Wedding
      • Baby
  • Study With Me
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  • ASHLEY WAGNER
    • PERFORMER
    • COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER
    • ABOUT
      • BLOG
      • Resume
      • Press
      • Photos
      • Wedding
      • Baby
  • Study With Me
  • Princess✨Grams
    • Shop
  • Holiday!
  • Enchanted Adventures
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  • Favorites,  Music & Theatre

    Artistic Philosophy, Background, and Goals

    13 April 2020 / Comments Off on Artistic Philosophy, Background, and Goals

    One of the most meaningful experiences I’ve had as a performer – one of the times in life I’ve felt most useful – was in the hospital room of a dying man, surrounded by his family, singing his favorite Gospel songs.  I began singing and performing leading children’s roles in musical theatre as a very young child – initially because it was fun, interesting, and something I was good at (Annie was the first dream role I performed). While enjoyment is still a motivating factor, my passion for the work I do (and the way I try to live) stems more from a desire to influence people’s lives for the…

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    On Human Dignity and Shared Experiences

    16 August 2015 / 1 Comment

    I had afternoon tea yesterday. I had afternoon tea with a stranger. I met this stranger because I had afternoon tea yesterday at Patisserie Valerie, where tea is only served for two, in St. Pancras International Railway Station. Because the seating area at Patisserie Valerie is open to the rest of the station, I shared afternoon tea for two with a stranger who was asking customers for spare change. I shared tea because my heart was softened when the woman my stranger first approached shared some of her money with her and treated her with kindness; and because I am learning to listen to my intuition and to not be…

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    Process, Not Results

    11 July 2015 / Comments Off on Process, Not Results

    Why do we focus so much on results? This morning as I painted my nails, I found myself impatient with needing to apply several coats of this particular polish for full coverage, and thinking about brands that claim to only need 1 coat… which reminded me of this post on a friend’s blog about nail polish toxicity.  I don’t have any real idea what is in this stuff that I regularly slap on my body to “enhance” it.  And I don’t have any idea what happens to a formula when it’s modified to need only one coat, or dry more quickly, or not chip, for my convenience.  How is that achieved?  What…

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    A little philosophy, courtesy of “The School of Life”

    10 July 2015 / Comments Off on A little philosophy, courtesy of “The School of Life”

    I started reading L’étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus after discussing a passage from it in my French course.  Yesterday, this video on Camus popped up in my e-mail, from The School of Life’s YouTube channel, which I subscribe to and highly recommend.  Favorite takeaway this morning: enjoying the magnificence of this life instead of pining for another one (i.e., heaven). That led me to Michel de Montaigne, “Camus’ favorite philosopher,” according to The School of Life. Though some of his ideas are not unfamiliar to me, I haven’t read any of his works (yet!), and I’m very intrigued by this introduction. Some ideas that resonated: authenticity – value and pursue what is useful/appeals to you; value your own mind; recognize…

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    The Pursuit of: Intellectual Freedom

    9 July 2015 / Comments Off on The Pursuit of: Intellectual Freedom

    Throughout your upbringing and education, how many concepts were “truth,” and how many authority figures were “infallible”? I don’t know how to balance the need for children to have things they can count on – how to determine how much “grey” they can handle when they’re first developing – while instilling the idea that it is good essential to ask questions and to investigate ideas from various viewpoints before forming an opinion (we don’t even need to have an opinion on everything!). I fear that critical thinking is sorely lacking in (or even condemned by) many educational systems. We all have unique challenges to our growth and psychological development; some of my mine…

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