What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Making no promises, this is my sincere attempt to get back to more faithful blogging habits, hopefully winning back some of my Mindsay friends who have no doubt abandoned this recently desolate blog space.

A couple of weeks ago, I spent the day with a friend from Florida...we drove to the mountains to see some property she had bought on the side of a mountain in NC. Part of our day out included a stop by some manner of local crafts demonstrations at a geological museum. Inside the museum was a large partitioned tray full of rocks for $1 ea. Being a true rock NUT from as far back as I can remember, needless to say, I got one of each…the lot of which now resides in my suede Indian pouch I had bought in Cherokee. Feeding my lifetime fascination with rocks, I’ve prowled around the Internet looking for tidbits about mineralogy, stones, etc. and have been dumbfounded at the amount of information out there, not to mention the marketing of the magical properties of every manner of stone available.

Countless people are making fortunes off selling rocks, many probably no doubt, for much more than they are actually worth. Now I am all about acknowledging many metaphysisical realities. Indeed, it is a proven fact that everything that is possesses an energy of its own. That said, it should be indisputable to anyone with common sense that energies effect one another and interact with one another. And, the child in me must believe that there remains some level of ‘magic’ in this world, whether in a rock, a totem, whatever. Magic, to me, is simply the reality that there are things that are, that transcend the ordinary and mundane. As for me, I simply MUST cling to such elevated beliefs to keep life not only bearable but interesting.

One site sells bags of rock collections called Crystal Empowerment Pouches, each containing a select variety of rocks gathered together for specific purposes…there is a Luck pouch and a Happiness pouch, a Healing pouch and a Love pouch (does that mean you’re going to HAVE love? FEEL love? FIND love?!) – there’s a pouch for Money (I NEED that one!!!!), Protection, Psychic Awareness and Stree (I’ll have 10 of those please…). In other words, you can literally CHANGE YOU LIFE if you carry the proper collection of rocks (just how are you to carry around these bags of rocks without looking like a total weirdo?).

Some of the information on these sites was very informative, in that they included a lot of interesting information on stone formation, chemical and electrical properties, etc. And again, I do not discount that there is some metaphysical information of interest too. But some of these sites took the metaphysical thing to a whole new level…so much so that it almost seemed refreshing to lay the laptop aside and venture forth back into the real world of the Nuthouse Preserve and its imbalance of responsibilities, activities, sacrifice, etc. Of course, I did have my handy dandy bag of rocks with me. Which I figure, if all else fails, I can always throw rocks at any uncooperative offenders and violators of my own inner peace…