Loneliness can be swiftly slow

It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . a warmer five days ahead flirting with near 70 midweek before the Winter chill returns. TulseyTown is likely to receive needed rain tonight.

…all true artists shed their hides multiple times in their lives, letting any trace of a fixed mark fall away in the process.. – David Whyte

Birthdays

Taylor Swift turns 35 today. The multitalented singer-songwriter and global superstar was born in 1989, WestReading, Pennsylvania.

From the NYTimes: Dick Van Dyke, the lithe and witty nonagenarian whose career spans more than seven decades, has added yet another role to his lengthy résumé: music video star. Dancing barefoot in the backyard of his Malibu, California home, Van Dyke, turning 99 today, is the focus of Coldplay’s latest music video, “All My Love.”

Poet James Wright was born today in 1927 Martin's Ferry, Ohio.

It's the birthdate of playwright and actor Marc Connelly. One of the key members of the Algonquin Round Table, and Pulitzer Prize  laureate was born in 1890 McKeesport, Pennsylvania

Trump’s deportation plan would cost 8x the price of housing all of America’s homeless. – Pitt Griffin, at Daily Kos, 12.09.24

We do not have to accept Donald Trump and the demise of the rule of law as inevitable. — Joyce Vance, in her Civil Discourse.

Holiday loneliness is a special kind of torture.

There's music, then there's music that defines an entire season.