Mid-Week Libation: Happy Midsummer!
Listen to one of our favorite R&R playlists, sip a glass of Corsican Rosé, read a Midsummer poem by Léonie Adams, enjoy the art of Kyle Meyer & celebrate the birthdays of Lana Wachowski & Jujubee!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Lana Wachowski (born June 21, 1965)
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Domaine de Marquiliani Rosé (Corsica, France)
R&R’s Mid-Week Playlist: Feels Like June
The Art of Kyle Meyer
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Poem of the Week: “Midsummer” by Léonie Adams (1899–1988)
Midsummer
by Léonie Adams
This starbreak is celestial air,
Just silver; earthlight, dying amber.
Underneath an arch of pallor
Summer keeps her brightened chamber.
Bright beauty of the risen dust
And deep flood-mark of beauty pressed
Up from earth in lovely flower,
High against my lonely breast;
Thou rhythm like the changing moon’s
The catch to which the waters play,
That as they kiss moon-silver sink,—
As soon to spurn the baffled clay;
Only before the waters fall
Is Paradise shore for gaining now.
The grasses drink the berry-bright dew;
The small fruits jewel all the bough.
Heart-breaking summer beyond taste,
Ripeness and frost are soon to know;
But might such color hold the west,
And time, and time, be honey-slow! Drag Performance of the Week: Happy Birthday to Jujubee!
Official Site of Jujubee / Instagram
Artists Born Today: June 21st
Today is the birthday of J. C. F. Bach, Luís Gama, Louise Rayner, Machado de Assis, Giuseppe De Sanctis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Julio Ruelas, Henry Creamer, Natalia Goncharova, Rockwell Kent, Daisy Turner, Al Hirschfeld, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mary McCarthy, Tchan Fou-li, Herb Kawainui Kāne, Lalo Schifrin, Françoise Sagan, John Elwood Price, Ray Davies, Adam Zagajewski, Brenda Holloway, Ian McEwan, John Agard, Anne Carson, Manu Chao, Dimitris Papaioannou, Lana Wachowski, Smiljan Radic, Carrie Preston, Pete Rock, Juliette Lewis and Jujubee!
Happy Solstice! Happy Midsummer!
Today is Summer Solstice (aka Midsummer) in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. Happy Solstice everyone!
There are many holidays, festivals and celebrations around the globe today, including the Dragon Boat Festival, National Indigenous Peoples Day (Canada), World Humanist Day and Fête de la Musique aka World Music Day!
How are you celebrating today?
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I love the poem! Somehow I failed to realize it was summer solstice but I enjoyed itp on a sunset, cruise in the Adriatic.
I can’t wait to try that Corsican rosé with you!