First, my apologies to Olivia Newton-John. That is really a bad pun in the title. Anyway, on to business, quite literally. A new store is getting ready to open in the shopping center, just down the sidewalk. This will be the second new store opening in the last few months. The first one is a smoothie and nutritional supplement shop. I have yet had to opportunity to check it out. The new store coming in, if you couldn't guess from today's title, is a metaphysical shop that will be selling a variety of stones, herbs, and other products. My mother has been dismissively calling it a "woo-woo" shop. This might be because they might be selling books among their other wares. She really shouldn't be so mean about putting down another person's beliefs, especially since we had been looking into the very same things a few years ago for BookNotes. She would never get into that idea, or most of the other ideas I had to improve business, except for trying to stock some cheese dip mixes. We barely sold any, and we still have over a dozen of them left, unsaleable, hidden away even though they probably expired years ago. She refuses to throw them away, so they are in a cardboard box in storage somewhere no one can see them. Why she wanted to go into food, when nobody was asking for it, I can't fathom. At least people had been asking for the metaphysical stuff. But I have gone well off topic. So, as I mentioned, I am into some metaphysical, or New Age or Body/Mind/Spirit as some people prefer to call it, since I was a kid. I even did my own astrological chart back in seventh or eighth grade. Some of the math was a little beyond me at the time, but it was fairly accurate. I would do another one when I was in college, using a separate method. There was only on big difference between the two, and I never did figure out which one had the mistake. I used a book I checked out of the library for the first time, but it vanished sometime after I returned it, so I could never double check my calculations. (Don't tell anyone, but it was also one of the first books I saw that had pictures of partially naked people in it. Still fairly tame, for someone in grade school at the time. Hey, I was already reading at adult levels. No judgement.). Most of my other explorations in this field have been focuses on cryptozoology. I just love reading about creatures that may not exist, especially from the point of view of legend, myth, and folklore. I try to keep up with such books on "monsters" whenever I can. I don't think you could call me an expert, but I might be close. The same thing can be said on my love of tarot. I got my first deck back in college, for my birthday. It was one of the weirder themed ones, no longer published with the original art, but still available. Alas, it was one of four decks that I lost in a flood seventeen years ago, along with most of my books on metaphysical studies. Owning a bookstore allowed me to start a new collection, but most of the original books and decks are no longer around. Still, many of the replacements are just as good. One of my favorites was the Justice League art tarot that was the topic of a previous post. Many of the points I brought up in it actually came to pass, and are still coming about. I guess I can spot some things coming, even if most of my studies are purely academic in nature as opposed to actually usage. Don't get me wrong. There could be something real about many of things of this nature, but I still approach them with an open mind about how real they might be.
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