Mid-Week Libation (12.21.22): Happy Solstice!
Our Curated Splash of Inspiration and Culture
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Inniskillin Riesling Icewine (Niagara Peninsula, Canada)
Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: Solstice Soundtrack
The Photography of Ken Kitano 北野 謙 - Gathering Light series
“In the Gathering Light series, cameras were installed in dozens of locations all over Japan, and the shutters were kept open for six months to capture the daily movement of the sun on film.” [source]
Ken Kitano - Gathering Light at Ibasho Gallery
Ken Kitano - Works for Sale (via Artsy)
Winter Solstice
by Marjorie Meeker
I saw the land of winter grow and change
From the first lengthening shadow, the first leaf
Fallen, until the perilous and strange
Ramparts of dark, the citadel of grief,
Rose bold and bare—an old ironic quiet
Against whose walls in vain the quick hours riot.
The gaiety of spring and opulence
Of summer had been swift as any breath
Of fire or song, in chill magnificence
Had passed the gold imperious half-death
Of autumn, every tawny leaf defying
Time’s insolence till all in mold were lying.
O breath of winter, keen as kiss of swords
Against the little shuddering mortal flesh,
Trivial as time and futile as men’s words
Are the gold bright expediencies that mesh
This warm and fluttering life with lovely treason!
Under all change you are, O winter’s season,
Under all seasons, beyond life and breath,
Dark beyond men’s dim creeds and dooms you stand.
Past the frail pause in life that men call death,
Loved or unloved, you are that native land
The tumult of whose silences is drumming
Even now the welcome of a harsh homecoming . . .
Your thirst cries, "Drink!" Your hunger bids me feast,
Your pain sighs, "Rest!" Your dearth calls, "Harvest here!"
When the last lovely thralls of faith have ceased,
Each heart shall find you terrible and dear—
The far reality, past pride or pity,
The sure untender shelter, the final city.Drag Performance of the Week: Mayhem Miller as Krampus!
Mayhem Miller at DragQueenMerch
Today is Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. Happy Solstice everyone!
There are many holidays, festivals and celebrations around the globe that are also happening on this day. Happy Alban Arthan, Brumalia, Chawmos, Dongzhi Festival, Feast of Aset (Isis), Goru, Hanukkah, Heliogenna, Koročun, Lantern Festival, Montol, Saturnalia, Şeva Zistanê, Soyal, Te Hikumata-o-Raumati, Tōji, Umkhosi Wokweshwama, Yaldā Night and Yule!
Happy Solstice. I'm sitting in front of a cozy fire in my little home as the first day of winter brings a foot of snow and freezing temps. A glass of wine and listening to your playlist is a great way to spend the evening.