After the past eight years, after the frustration and awe in   which I watched my fellow Americans pander to misinformation and blind loyalty to the Bush administration… after wondering just as many of you out there have done if America would ever come to the point where the majority of our citizens would stand together and cry “Enough”. After all of this, my faith in the power of the people has been restored tonight.

I am very excited to have Barak Obama as America’s 44^th President. Change is possible and history has just been made. Now, all we have to do is keep moving forward and make our country, our states and our communities a better place to be than it has been these past tragic eight years.

More Pagan related goodness to follow this week, as time allows me to update here.

Laura

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Samhain shona duit! I hope that you all have a wonderful   holiday no matter what path of faith the you are on.

I am very excited about this years celebration and oddly enough preparded this year to deal with all that must be done. I am hopeful, happy and ready to set those extra plates at the table for my ancestors.

In light of the holiday, I will be off line until after the sunrise of November 3rd. That includes this blog here, e-mails and the other sites that I write for.

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From the weekly National Catholic Register comes an article from Father Dwight Longnecker entitled Are Witches Real? The good father enlightens us by writing that witches are indeed real and that commercialism of witches is only used to make people think that they are not real.

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Personal religion matters to the people who believe in their faiths. While some faiths may allow for a level of tolerance and acceptance towards individuals or group beliefs in a variety of faiths, there are others who hold within a cornerstone of their faith that their own religious path is the only way.

The human condition is rife with religious discord and unfortunately it is those who have the tolerant faiths who sometimes find themselves fighting for their right to believe in what they do.

Does it matter on a personal level if your neighbor is of a different faith? Does it matter that a politician or other public servant has a faith that is not like your own? It shouldn’t matter at all.

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