Mid-Week Libation: Blossom by Blossom the Spring Begins
Open up a bottle of Corsican red, put on our fierce feminist playlist, read a poem by May Sinclair, check out the art of Helen Zughaib, and celebrate drag icons Crystal Woods and Heklina!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909)
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Domaine Giacometti, Patrimonio Cru des Agriate Rouge (Corsica, France)
Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: Breathe On Little Sister, Breathe On
The Art of Helen Zughaib
Poem of the Week: “The Dark Night (XVIII)” by May Sinclair (1863-1946)
The Dark Night (XVIII)
by May Sinclair
Our love is woven
Of a thousand strands—
The cool fragrance of the first lilac
At morning,
The first dew on the grass,
The smell of wild mint in the wood,
The pungent and earthy smell of ground ivy crushed under our feet;
Songs of birds, songs of great poets;
The leaping of the red squirrel in the tree,
The running of the river,
The commotion of stars and clouds in the high winds at night;
And dark stillness.
It is adorned with all the flowers
That stand in our garden;
It holds the night and the day.
Our love is made
Of the South Wind and the West Wind,
And the soft falling of rain;
Of white April evenings;
It is made of trees,
And of the many-coloured fields on the hills;
Of horizons,
Dark sea-blue of the west, thin sky-blue of the east,
With a yellow road between.
The flames of sunset and sunrise
Mingle in the fire of our love.Drag Performers of the Week: Crystal Woods and Heklina
Our community lost two drag titans this week: Las Vegas legend Crystal Woods and San Francisco icon Heklina. Rest in power, queens!
Crystal Woods as Diana Ross:
In Loving Memory of Crystal Woods
Short Documentary about Heklina:
The Oasis Pays Tribute to Heklina as Drag Icon Passes Away at the Age of 54
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Today is the birthday of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Smalls, Booker T. Washington, Spencer Tracy, Paul Chidlaw, Effat Nagy, Bette Davis, Carlos Guastavino, Ruth Smith, Gregory Peck, Robert Bloch, Dorothea Buck, Roger Corman, Tony Williams (the Platters), Hugo Claus, Nigel Hawthorne, Joe Meek, Stanley Turrentine, Nancy Holt, Ronnie White (The Miracles), Peter Greenaway, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Cem Karaca, Agnetha Fältskog (ABBA), Lillian Allen, Larry McCray, Paula Cole, Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Pharrell Williams, Sterling K. Brown, Kerry Andrew and Freddie Fox!
How are you celebrating spring this Wednesday?