We are all members of The October Club
You can feel it coming.
The days haven’t completely surrendered to fall yet. Halloween is still somewhere on the horizon. But something has changed.
Spooky season has arrived.
And this week on The Leal Legacy Podcast, I’m talking about the proper way to welcome it.
Because and this is important you can’t just go from summer directly into full-blown Pumpkin Spice insanity overnight.
There needs to be a transition.
Let Fall Come to You
Part of what makes this time of year so special is the anticipation.
The first decorations start appearing. Horror movies work their way back into the rotation. The nights begin feeling a little different. Halloween starts creeping into stores.
Then, eventually, the Pumpkin Spice can flow.
But we’ve got to earn it.
There’s something to be said for allowing a season to slowly take over instead of immediately sprinting toward the finish line.
And while I’m talking about new seasons, there’s a pretty literal new chapter beginning for Leal Legacy as well.
We Have a New Studio
This is a big one.
I’ve officially landed a new studio space.
After years of building, recording, designing, filming, writing, experimenting and figuring out what Leal Legacy even is, having a dedicated space for the next stage of that journey feels significant.
It’s another home for the weird little universe we’re continuing to build.
And there will be plenty more on that as it comes together.
But spooky season also has a way of pulling old stories out of the graveyard.
Which brings us to New Orleans.
Halloween, New Orleans and Two Bat Heads
One Halloween, I found myself in New Orleans.
And somewhere in the middle of everything that makes Halloween in New Orleans exactly what you’d imagine Halloween in New Orleans to be…
I got tattooed.
Bats, on my head.
Because apparently sometimes the appropriate souvenir from a Halloween trip isn’t a T-shirt or refrigerator magnet.
It’s permanent.
In the episode, I tell the story behind those tattoos and revisit a Halloween memory that’s managed to become a permanent piece of my own personal mythology.
And maybe that’s what The October Club really is.
It’s not a real club.
There are no dues.
There probably aren’t meetings.
It’s just that feeling shared by those of us who understand that Halloween isn’t merely one night on October 31st.
It’s the buildup.
The movies.
The decorations.
The weather.
The traditions.
The memories.
It’s letting the season slowly creep into your life until one day you realize…
October has arrived.
Even when the calendar says otherwise.
π§ Listen to The October Club, the latest episode of The Leal Legacy Podcast: [LINK]
π¦ Welcome to spooky season.
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