Mid-Week Libation: The Gifts of History
Pour yourself a dram of vintage Port, celebrate the birthday of drag king Landon Cider, check out the art of Luke Edward Hall, read a haunting poem by Bryher & hear our playlist in honor of a friend.
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Kwame Anthony Appiah
“To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.” — Kwame Anthony Appiah [Source: Quotefancy]
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Taylor's Late Bottled Vintage Port (Porto, Portugal)
R&R’s Mid-Week Playlist: She’s A Star (in loving memory of Elisabeth Kather)
The Art & Design of Luke Edward Hall
Luke Edward Hall and Duncan Campbell’s “Ad Hoc Happy” Wedding in the English Countryside (via Vogue)
Poem of the Week: “The Pool” by Bryher (1894-1983)
The Pool
by Bryher
You mirage a dead world
in the white pool.
White rush and silver rush at twitterlight
meet and desire as the shy boy
lifts from his lover.
White rush and silver rush at twitterlight
touch in the wind and sleep.
Duck-green and willow-silver . . .
has no wing touched your cheek?
Is there no bird
to weave a nest between your sullen limbs
and hatch a songster,
(amber with lizard eyes)
to chirp above your phrases: “Love, love, love . . .”
Your world dies from the surface of the pool.
Why are your hands not on the willow leaves
to feel the sharpness and the thin, soft flower?
To feel . . .
love wrinkle at the touch like a soft bird?Drag Performance of the Week: Happy Birthday to Drag King Landon Cider!!!
Artists Born Today: June 14th
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Today is the birthday of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Giovanni Prini, W. W. E. Ross, Pan Yuliang, Margaret Bourke-White, René Char, Kathleen Raine, Burl Ives, Ted DeGrazia, Margo Hoff, Judith Kerr, Cy Coleman, Marla Gibbs, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Jerzy Kosiński, Vivian Gornick, Renaldo Benson, Wilson das Neves, Colin Thubron, John Edgar Wideman, Laurence Yep, Harry Turtledove, Antony Sher, Papa Wemba, Paul O'Grady, Marcus Miller, Boy George, Raja Gemini, Alan Carr, Diablo Cody, Landon Cider, Lang Lang and Benjamin Booker!
What materials has history given to you?
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Love, love your featured artist today. Luke Edward Hall is so interesting & love his work. And a real cutie as well.