Re-Emergence Day

Life comes at you fast, it's good to take a little time to remember the good old days

We always had to wait perfectly still in the dark, without making a noise, before we could light the first candle. Something about lighting a path from one season of life into the next, or to show the daemon where to emerge from "beyond the veil" to find us. Ha, I'm totally stealing this ...

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One year my mom somehow found an emu egg(!) and cooked it up – just the one, I think they cost like $20 or something? – but she got the time all wrong and when we cracked it the whole thing just kind of dumped out on the table in a gloppy mess. EXCEPT THERE WAS A LITTLE EMU FETUS IN THERE! It kind o...

My mom is still really into the whole daemon part... I guess my grandma always was talking about how there were angels everywhere helping us and my mom would get annoyed with how saccharine the whole angel thing gets (so many figurines!) but deep down she kind of liked it so daemons were a less emba...

(My sister claims the whole remerge/demerge thing is just a hoax made up for Ansel Stevenson's concept album 10 hours to live 1000 hours to relive during the whole seance-for-the-month-of-Mercedonius bit in the middle, and that remerge/demerge didn't exist before 1973, but I don't really care, I thi...

Like, multiple stopped ones, for the holiday. Usually all on the same wall. (Though they weren’t really broken, just the batteries were taken out.) Obviously these were analog clocks, like people had back in the day. OMG, mine totally did that too. The night before my dad would set each one to a ti...