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Welcome to The Majickal Garden, a mystical cyber garden for anyone traveling the path, who is interested in enhancing their spiritual growth.

You will find spiritually based esoterical/mystical subjects inside. There is an acceptance to new ideas as well as others beliefs. We are all students in the light of life. The Universal ways have gifted us wonderful tools for our souls evolvement and discovering them is a pleasure found in The Majickal Garden.

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Summer Update 2008

Summer is in full swing, with all of Mother Nature’s full bloom beautiful splendor. In the Pacific Northwest, we have had many brilliant warm sunny days buffered by comfortably cool nights. It’s been almost ideal really, weather wise. Judging by the blue skies, the sun riding high, the abundant richness of color that is awash over the earthly soil, all is right with the world. Tending the garden out my back door is such a pleasant meditative rewarding task in the coolness of the mornings. To pull oneself away from Nature and pick up or mouse click on any publication printing the news of today is to discover it is anything but “right”.

The beginning of this year’s presidential election began with breaking new ground in history with a woman candidate and a black man as forerunners for the top position of running our country. It was not until 1920 that women were allowed to even vote. I was one of many during my own generation that wondered if and when it could possibly happen that a woman could hold the head position of President of the United States. Now the possibility was there with the reality of a woman state senator going head to head with a male for the Democrat’s candidate for election. It appeared maybe we were ready, however, there’s much more to consider for qualification of the position than just being a woman (regardless of how much one believes in “Woman Power”!) and that in the end she had to concede defeat, after a valiant fight…regardless of if one was in her corner or not. At least since the 60’s, more people were taking time to follow what was happening. Especially the last 2 generations.

The national economy is clearly in turmoil and no matter what your personal political leanings are regarding parties, there is a wide spread consensus that our pocketbooks and wallets are being hammered badly. The gas situation has spawned the unthinkable, almost $5 per gallon gasoline. Simply put, the cost of everything is rising just from transportation costs alone. Airline travel has become more of a hassle than pleasure between costs increasing and changing security rules as well as cancelled flights with overcrowding due to planes being grounded to offset rising fuel costs. New rules and precedents are being set as a result of all these changes leaving us, the American consumer, to scramble in keeping up, with hopefully a renewed awareness in our own responsibilities to protect ourselves in too many aspects of our lives.

We are being forced to conserve in many ways. Of course, gas consumption is a glaring issue. Heating and cooling our homes and the cost to do so have perhaps changed in how much it can be taken for granted after looking at the rising numbers on our monthly bills. The pride in owning a home has been replaced by scary numbers of those who are struggling to keep them or losing them where keeping up on the mortgage payments have become impossible. There has certainly been warnings echoed in the wind of change but now, were the warnings not heeded before, the need to do so now is ever apparent.

So, we are left with the only option of finding ways to survive these wild uncertain times. Planning trips out in our beloved vehicles to include a course to be driven that will consist of as many stops and errands taken care of in one shot rather than erratically jumping in them to run out for this or that on a daily basis is a common sense approach, saving on fuel costs. Including another person in those plans could help contribute to one less car on the road, easing the already out of line congestion most of us experience every day. Many are finding, what with the cost of traveling, there are many undiscovered wonderful places to visit and vacation locally. It’s all forcing us to take a serious look at the many ways Americans have taken too much for granted in our lifestyles.

If the saying goes that good things come from bad, I think it’s our responsibility to set aside our indignation at having that lifestyle challenged and find our own ways to contribute to the answer, not only for our own benefit but for the environment and well being of our country as well.