We had a fairly quiet day at school; or at least it seemed so in comparison to yesterday. After school work was much busier, and I got a lot done for the family business before it was time to pack up; have dinner; and head over to the Inn for game night. Mom and Dad won the senior championship tonight – her second win of this school year; and Dad’s first.
After Sally’s party yesterday, and reading Uncle Adam’s new entries in our Magi project archive, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we’re doing with that, and about the relationships between Magi and non-Magi. Game nights are an even better opportunity than Sunday church services for studying that; including my own interaction with our friends and neighbors.
One of the stranger, if benign, things that have happened since I’ve found out who all of the other Magi are is how some of the Magi – the ones who don’t yet want to get involved with Mom and I on a Magi level – act around me. It’s a ‘they know I know’ situation that they haven’t figured out how to handle. For those Magi who also have kids, there’s an added worry factor that I can’t blame them for having when you consider everything that’s happened over the past year or so. The rest of the Magi adults all seem very happy to have Magi Masters again, and they’re mostly just impressed with what Mom, the twins, and I can do; even though we haven’t really had all that much impact in their personal lives yet.
Rowen and I have talked about setting the example to show the council in particular that having Magi kids know about each other can be very positive. I really hope that even if that doesn’t change for us between now and when we’re eighteen that they do allow it for younger kids. From my perspective, I really don’t think that it will have as much downside effect as the council thinks. In Rowen’s case, for example, it might have actually helped her to know other Magi kids – especially in a case like hers where she’s needed to hide her special gifts even from her parents.
Getting back to my game night observations; while the Magi council believes that the way they raise their kids is key to how well the Magi and non-Magi get along with each other, it’s the socio-economic factors that affect every community that has the biggest influence on relationships. Mom and Dad, for instance, have a lot of non-Magi friends, but almost all of them are either business owners like they are, or have professional careers like teachers.
That’s true for most of the Magi, but that’s because nearly every Magi adult is a college graduate, and thanks to their family heritages; have financial resources that the non-Magi don’t. I don’t know how every family deals with that, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that they all take care of their families the same way that Grandma, Grandpa, Dad, and Aunt Leanne have told us our family has done. The bottom line is that common levels of education; personal interests, like sports or children; and financial standing have more effect on Magi relationships with non-Magi than anything else. Knowing about other Magi during childhood would not likely change that at all.
I’m almost always studying the Magi, latent, and normal auras that I can feel now, and that’s an ongoing process that includes correlating each person’s place in their group with, in particular, talents that I know they have. Among other things, I’ve been looking to see if there is a calculable and definitive scale that would peg certain talents to points on each of the ranges in the three groups. For example, would music talent be at one place on each scale while excelling in sports would be somewhere else. Working that out would really be valuable with training Magi if we could pin down each person’s capacity for the different Magi talents; and adjust their Magi education accordingly.
Since I’m thinking about this now anyway, and it’s not really that late; I’m going to add a section to our project archive and pop in those data points that I have so far. Since we’re also still working on defining the scales for each group; this might help with that too. Then I’ll need to find out what I missed for tonight’s television shows. The funniest part of that for Thursday nights now is keeping up with what’s happening on The Secret Circle. Nearly all of the girls, and quite a few of the boys, in Witch Falls are already hooked on the show about a group of teenaged Witches. Rowen and I, and probably the rest of the Magi kids, find it amusing and more than a little weird; but then again, in our case, most people would think that our truth is stranger than fiction!