Music, for many ears …

It's Freya's day . . . and, appropriately, Yang continues under Yin's influence to deconstruct the patriarchy …

Taylor Swift reclaiming the term "childless cat lady" … deftly mocked what scares and enrages MAGA men most: women who don't care what they think. – Amanda Marcotte

The MAGA crowd is fragmenting into flotsam and jetsam after Trump's disastrous “debate” with Harris. The increase in voter registrations after Swift’s endorsement of Harris is reportedly bigger than what we saw after the Dobbs decision in 2022, and who would have thought Marjory Taylor Greene would fall in the “more restrained” category? – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from An American.

Notable birthdates today

The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl was born in 1916 Llandaff, Wales.

The “father of bluegrass,” Bill Monroe was born in 1911, Rosine, Kentucky.

Composer Arnold Schoenberg was born in 1874, Vienna, Austria.

Quietly in a Wild Place

If you sit quietly

in a wild place and listen,

you may hear a poem,

the same one written

for millions of years.

Without rhyme nor words

sung in a harmony

bringing any human witness

to tears.

– jab