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The Indictment Cocktail
I’ve been thinking about how, with such a momentous occasion upon us, that a good and proper cocktail is very much needed. I’ve always been drawn to the 19th century, and I’ve also developed an abiding love for art and literature throughout the years and absinthe just seems to perfectly fit.
Also, it can be a bit hallucinatory as well, and really, the looming spectra of “The Orange Buffoon” having his day in court actually IS quite surreal, isn’t it? Also, absinthe is also known as “The Green Fairy” and I enjoy imagining certain segments of society totally aghast at such a very enchanting phrase.
While we don’t yet know, and perhaps won’t know, for a while, how all of this will play out both in public and in the media, it’s still important to have a “blast from the past” in which to imbibe. The actual ceremonial aspects of drinking absinthe also lend themselves quite nicely to this, I think, too.
The “preparation” is what I most enjoy about all of this, and years ago, my dearest friend, and both of our (now ex) husbands spent a lovely evening doing just this and if memory serves, at some point during that late night, I went into their yard and laid down in the grass amongst the various flowers and quoted a line from Shelley: “I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed” —
