The wishful public domain . . .

It's Freya's (Frigg's) day... Moderate Northerlies bring a blustery cold, clear day to TulseyTown today. Tomorrow will be one second shorter entering the Solstice.

“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.” – Thomas Paine, December 19, 1776.

Paine's lines had the effect he called for, remembered yet again by Heather Cox Richardson in her Letters From An American.

Today is physicist David Bohm's birth date. The American-born British theoretical physicist who developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics was born today in 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life premiered today in 1946.

And, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, the lifelong muse of poet W.B. Yeats, was born on this date in 1865 Surrey, England.

He wishes for the cloths of heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

— W.B. Yeats. “He wishes for the cloths of heaven” was written for Maud Gonne and published in The Wind Among the Reeds in 1899. It is my pleasure to share it with you on this day before the 2024 Winter Solstice because it expresses my own sentiment about all who share this blog space with me. The poem, thankfully, is in the public domain.