It's not a thing I can bury.

I'll be getting a new/new-to-me car here pretty soon, but I'm feeling as if I don't want to transfer my SIRENEE license plate to it when I get it. I would like a new license plate; I'm just not certain what, yet.

But what about the old plates? I got them... kind of under the assumption that I'd follow up getting them w/ getting an initiation, and then I didn't - or at least, not exactly. I followed the letter, not the spirit of the agreement.

That's kind of cheating.

And now, moving forward, I feel that I've disconnected myself so thoroughly from those days that the old plates are starting to feel like a shoe that's too big, along with the car.

With Darrin's passing, lots of things suddenly don't quite fit any longer - if they ever really did - including the car, and its plates.

Many ritual things can be disposed of in running water or by being buried. Many get passed along to thrift and second hand stores; some go to landfill, although as little of that as possible the better.

But what happens to license plates?

"We separated a long time ago and it was probably for the best. You were protecting yourself and there's nothing wrong with that. Let your government take care of the plates, and know I wish you well."

Well.

There it is, then.