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January 11, 2026

On This Day - January 11th

On this day in the year 1765 of the common era (CE), Frisia bans Voltaire's book Traité sur la tolerance, A Treatise on Tolerance in which he called for religious toleration and targeted religious fanaticism as an affront to humanism, with special  attention being given to the pernicious and socially destructive work of the Jesuits.

 

Observation - January 11th, 2026, Sunday

it is dark and the air is dry

my studio is illuminated

with lamplight

 

soft-yellow above my desk

blending with the blue shift

            of computer screens

 

I am typing, clickety-clack

 

the scent of curry lingers in the air

lentils in the crockpot thickening

 

the comforts of home