THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.”

— Virginia Postrel

BIRTHDAYS:

1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, baptized in Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

1602 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter

MISCELLANEOUS:

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