It’s the Moon’s day … and yer’s trooly is. writing from a cold, clear morning in Colorado Springs.

It's important for us to remember January 6 with clarity for what it was, an attack on the Constitution and the country...We need to reject that effort to normalize the insurrection with an accurate history of those events as Donald Trump, inexplicably, returns to office. — Joyce Vance, “The Week Ahead,” in Civil Discourse.

National Book Award-winning novelist E.L. Doctorow was born on this date in 1931 New York City.

Today is the Feast of the Epiphany in the Christian Church. The word "epiphany" comes from an old Greek word meaning "manifestation" or "striking appearance." In ancient Greece, before Christianity, it was a term used to document occasions when Greek gods and goddesses manifested themselves to human beings on earth. The term has evolved over time from that religion’s focus on the day mythical three kings visited the baby Jesjua. Following influences largely attributed to James Joyce, the term epiphany is now often asssociated with the sudden "revelation of the whatness of a thing," the moment when "the soul of the commonest object ... seems to us radiant."

Jimmy Carter died and is on his way to rock and roll heaven enboard Voyager.