Friday, June 19, 2026
The Kelly-Strawberry family
I dreamt that we were preparing for a ritual in which we would symbolically burn (in effigy) the person who had burned Abinadi. In the Book of Mormon, of course, that person was King Noah, or someone acting under Noah's direction, but we never said that name. Instead, "the person who had burned Abinadi" was someone alive today, whose surname was Kelly-Strawberry. I couldn't remember the first name, and when I tried to find more information online, I found a Wikipedia article titled "Kelly-Strawberry family" listing dozens of notable members, mostly in the entertainment world, including one of the human actors in Sesame Street and a member of the Harlem Globetrotters. They were light-skinned but ethnically ambiguous, with several having an Afro/Jewfro hairstyle similar to that of Malcolm Gladwell or Art Garfunkel. My reaction to most of the names and faces was that I thought I might have heard of them before but couldn't be sure. This feeling persisted after I woke up, leading me to search the Web for the Kelly-Strawberry family just in case they really existed.
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The Voldemort aspect of not using the person's name is interesting.
I wonder if the name itself has any clues. Kelly comes from a Gaelic name which means "War, Strife", etc. That catches my attention due to the recent Jay Leno-Blue Jeans symbols. I went back to an earlier comment where I noted the relevance of "Levi-Strauss", with Strauss being a name which can also mean "Strife" (as well as an ostrich).
Strawberry gets its name most likely from the agricultural practice of mulching the plants with straw. Straw in conjunction with Noah, and his 'family', wouldn't be a surprising reference given Abinadi's reference to straw in prophesying Noah's fate. When Noah's people delivered Abinadi to him, and let him know they were squarely on Team Noah, they related that Abinadi had compared Noah to a "stalk":
"...he saith that thou shalt be as a stalk, even as a dry stalk of the field, which is run over by the beasts and trodden under foot."
As Etymonline notes, straw is "dried grain stalks strewn on a floor as carpeting or bedding" for animals. So this connection could make sense.
Which leaves us with Berry, which since its a name, I might take as Barry. It wouldn't be the first time I've done that, looking back, for example, at "Blueberry/ Blue Barry Hill". There I noted that Barry, as another Irish name, means "Plunderer", and made the connection to Pharazon. Other "Plunderer" names have come up with Caterpillar, as another example.
The fact that this family in your dream was mostly comprised of "entertainers" as you put it also stood out to me. I've noted before words from 2020 which told me to "Beware" the refrigerator thief. About a month later in May, there was another reference to "Beware", this time of a group or type of people:
"Beware those priests entertainers robbers..."
The people who called for Abinadi's death and ensured Noah went through with it were always referred to as this collective group of "priests". So, you linking entertainers very specifically to the burning of Abinadi via Noah and his family/ group in the dream.
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