Magickal Happenings with Oshuyn...

I think that technology is a great thing.  I'm not sure that I would be able to function properly without my laptop and blackberry.  Take these things away from me and you just might have to sedate to get me through my withdrawals.  I'm sure after the initial shock of it all wore off I would be fine, but still sounds very stressing. 

These tools allow amazing things to be right at our fingertips at any given moment.  I have many things that I'm thankful for due to the internet and technology and I look forward to all that it will bring my way in future.  But, there is still something about the natural side of it all that is truely magickal. 

My daughter was doing some homework last night and often I would hear sighs coming from her direction.  I would glance over and see her glowing face, not glowing because of sheer happiness but glowing from the light of her laptop.  She was 'taking notes' from a few chapters in her book.  When I did homework it was my trusty notebook and pen and my artistic lines and curves that added a touch of interest in rereading my notes. She thought I was crazy when I made the suggestion to maybe write it out.  Loony-woman talk!

The art of writing seems to have slipped away in the past years.  It was always nice to receive a letter in the mail from my friend Claudine after we went our separate ways as 'adults' after high school.  I would get excited to see what color of ink she used and what paper her energized words were gracing.  I could tell her moods by the curve of her Os and the pressure or slant of her lettering.  I could feel the happiness in her smiley faces and expression marks.  I could sense the love of our friendship in the hearts she drew and the underlines under 'I MISS YOU'.  Although we both have families now and busy lives and don't get the chance to play catch up, our prefered method to this day is the trusty pen and paper. 

I know technology makes it handy, how else can I be typing this and push my little button and deliver it instantly to your eyes for your viewing pleasure (well at least hope so).  How simple has techology made it to type up your Yule/Christmas letters to send to all your family and friend and tell your computer to make 20 copies.  I have a great journaling software on my laptop that has some great features, enough to even set up a nice BoS in but it just doesn't feel the same.  I don't think I've opened that program for months now.

I think that when we sit down and take the time and put the effort forward in writing it out our creativity starts to flow and our energies are being imbedded in what we are creating.  As a Witch I journal on a regular basis and am constantly writing something down somewhere and probably several times and know that this is not a waste of my time.  Yes, I know I can type it up and make multiple copies and print it in beautiful perfect fonts on a multitude of papers and staple, 3 hold punch, bind, glue, tape or just shoove it in somewhere but it just doesn't feel the same...it just doesn't feel like 'me'. 

So thumbs up for the power of technology, I know that I would be lost without you, you're my window to other worlds sometimes.  But, thumbs up for the magick of the pen and paper, allowing me to put my magickal mark and energies down and 'make it so'. 

In Light & Love,

Oshuyn