Mid-Week Libation: Bring All Your Dreams Alive
Art from Edward Burne-Jones, hilarity from Philomena Cunk, wisdom from Audre Lorde, poetry from Rabindranath Tagore, R&R's Gen X childhood musical nostalgia, and delicious Cantonese Pan-Fried Noodles!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
Artist Spotlight: Edward Burne-Jones (August 28, 1833 – June 17, 1898)
R&R’s Newest Playlist of Gen X Childhood Nostalgia: Bring All Your Dreams Alive (Featuring Carly Simon, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, Bill Withers, Roberta Flack, ABBA, Tina Turner, Olivia Newton-John & More!)
Recipe of the Week: Cantonese Soy Sauce Pan-Fried Noodles (via The Woks of Life)
Click here for the printable recipe! (via The Woks of Life)
Poem of the Week: Gitanjali 44 (“This is my delight”) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)
Gitanjali 44
by Rabindranath Tagore
This is my delight, thus to wait and watch at the wayside where shadow
chases light and the rain comes in the wake of the summer.
Messengers, with tidings from unknown skies, greet me and speed along the
road. My heart is glad within, and the breath of the passing breeze is
sweet.
From dawn till dusk I sit here before my door, and I know that of a sudden
the happy moment will arrive when I shall see.
In the meanwhile I smile and I sing all alone. In the meanwhile the air is filling
with the perfume of promise.Need a Laugh? Check out Philomena Cunk’s Most Hilarious Interviews with Actual Scholars & Academics!
For more Philomena Cunk (played by comedic genius Diane Morgan), check out Cunk on Earth (Netflix & BBC iPlayer)
Interesting Artists Born Today: August 28th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Kanō Motonobu, Thomas Seddon, Edward Burne-Jones, Agathon Léonard, John Ferguson Weir, Nancy Coonsman, Benno Schotz, Karel Aubroeck, Lucile Lloyd, Morris Graves, Tasha Tudor, Louis Faurer, Jack Kirby, L. B. Cole, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Stanley Bleifeld, Ted Harrison, Mort Künstler, Charles Ginnever, Melvin Charney, Glenna Goodacre, Michael Craig-Martin, Fred Eversley, Jean Gaumy, Flora Mace, Kostas Spiropoulos, Ai Weiwei, Mark Dion and Theaster Gates!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Evadne Price, Ivor Gurney, Liam O'Flaherty, Andrei Platonov, John Betjeman, Roger Tory Peterson, Robertson Davies, C. Wright Mills, Jack Vance, William Modisane, Janet Frame, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Arkady Strugatsky, Kyoko Hayashi, Carlene Hatcher Polite, Philip French, Vonda N. McIntyre and Rita Dove!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Sophie Gail, Orestes López, Hal Russell, Kenny Drew, Vilayat Khan, István Kertész, Joe Osborn, Joseph Shabalala, Danny Seraphine, Hugh Cornwell, Dennis Davis, Phranc, Anthony Branker, Dinah Cancer, Maria Gheorghiu, Shania Twain, William Faith, Larry Goldings, LeAnn Rimes, Florence Welch and Cécile McLorin Salvant!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Louis Le Prince, Charles Boyer, James Wong Howe, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Nancy Kulp, Roxie Roker, Ben Gazzara, Robert Greenwald, Bruno Nuytten, Debra Mooney, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge, David Fincher, Jack Black, Jason Priestley, J. August Richards, Michel Franco, Shalita Grant and Quvenzhané Wallis!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992)
