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Epiphany is a word we use akin to "revelation": a sudden realization, an unexpected vision of the true and possible, that eureka moment of creativity and insight. "And then, I had an epiphany." We "have" epiphanies. We possess them. We feel compelled to share them. Epiphanies abound. Western Christians observe (if they do) January 6

The end's not nearIt's hereAlleluiaSpread the cheerAnd watch the millenariansThrow a party for a thousand yearsYou won't see the pious prayingThey'll be too busy flayingAll the martyrs with better waysTo stop the world decayingIf you call me I won't be homeI'm hiding from the kingdom comeThey can't see everything on earthWith the satellites and the

For those of us who remember that day, we are forever in that day. The day does not stop. It is with us, that eternal, infernal day.

What we have lost can only be remembered. And it is in the act and ritual of remembering, re-membering that together we create something new.

The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but