Just another dime in the jukebox . . .

It's Sol's day . . . and the autumnal equinox moved into TulseyTown this morning at 7:45 a.m. pushed along by cool Northerlies and rain chances. And as if orchestrated, the first hints of red and gold are in the tree tops across from my cottage.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the first day of fall is the point in which the Sun is directly above the equator and the hours of day and night are nearly equal. In the Southern Hemisphere, today marks the vernal equinox, the first day of spring.

On this day 162 years ago, in 1862, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Electoral College [and why you need to send $ome love to Harris/Walz]. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from An American

Who are we really? We will soon find out. – Chauncey DeVega

AI Safety Is A Global Public Good: Chinese and Western AI scientists convene at the Berggruen Institute’s Casa dei Tre Oci In Venice, Italy.

Autumn poses the question we all have to live with: How to hold on to the things we love even though we know that we and they are dying. How to see the world as it is, yet find light within that truth...What do we have to hold on to? Only the certainty that nothing will go according to design... - Pico Iyer, Autumn Light, in The Marginalian.

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame trailblazer Joan Jett was born today in 1958, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

Put another dime in that jukebox, baby.

And from the “been-there-done-that” list of lessons learned...