In a witching night of broken glass . . .

It's a cloudy and cold Thor's day in TulseyTown . . .

The man who wrote “[The writer] cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it” – Albert Camus – was born yesterday in 1913 Mondovi, Algeria.

Today is Anne Sexton's birthdate. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was born in 1928 Newton, Massachussets.

Carl Sagan was born on this date in 1934 Brooklyn, NY.

And, lest we forget:

This is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night” or “Night of Broken Glass”) On the evening of this date in 1938 some 48 hours of Nazi-orchestrated anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany and Austria, resulting in the destruction and vandalizing of synagogues and Jewish businesses and the deaths of at least 91 Jews.

Today in 1989 the East German government opened the Berlin Wall, erected in 1961 to divide the western and eastern sectors of Berlin. For 28 years the wall was a symbol of the Cold War, https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall

from Her Kind

I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;

. . . [I have] fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.

– Anne Sexton in The Complete Poems, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.