Christmas Eve 2022

Appropriately, this Saturday's mailbox is filled with messages of light.

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner,

The first pictures of an Earth-rise over the moon were seen today in 1968, as the crew of Apollo 8 orbited the moon.

It is the 855th anniversary of the birth of King John of England. Generally recognized as among the worst of the English monarchies, he noneless was responsible for the Magna Carta, which he created under duress. The basic rights embodied in the Constitution of the United States of America (1789) and the Bill of Rights (1791) echo the charter, and the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) can trace its ancestry to the Magna Carta.

Let there always be light – Maria Popova

Sometimes as an antidote / To fear of death, / I eat the stars. – Rebecca Elson