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FOR YOUR DOWN TIME...
Seabourn suggests how to spend your down time.
SPACE WEATHER REPORT BY ANTHONY NINE
When the concept of coloring books for grown-ups first came about, the word “meditative” tended to come up a lot. It was probably inevitable that they’d go further into mystical realms eventually. This is a coloring book (though we doubt the back cover when it says “definitely not a spell”) that has pictures and words designed to inspire surreal experiences. Even an n idle glance at the pages becomes oddly ly compelling – not exactly poetry, not precisely fiction, but spiritually uplifting ng and, yes, maybe even profoundly moving. ving. revelore.press
HOWICK FALLS, SOUTH AFRICA
“The Midlands Meander” is both a thing to do and a place to do it, in some of the KwaZulu-Natal Province’s most beautiful and unexpected terrain. The verdant area between the steep Drakensberg range and urbane “City of Flowers” Pietermaritzburg is prized today as much for local artisans as the landscape. At the heart of it all is the quaint town of Howick, home to world-class cobblers, olive-makers and Howick Falls. The 310-foot cascade was called KwaNogqaza, “Place of the Tall One,” by the Zulu people – who also told tales of the inkanyamba, a legendary, eel-like serpent living below the falls just like Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF HUMAN (STEP II) BY AURORA
The Norwegian chanteuse Aurora Aksnes has captured the internet’s heart with her gentle cover versions of pop hits, but her third full-length album (which serves as the second half of 2018’s Infectionsof aDifferentKind) is absolutely original. Cascading electronic soundscapes serve as backdrop to purely organic vocals, urging listeners, “Don’t forget who you are” (in “The River”) and warning us, “Everything wants to live” (in the anthemic single “The Seed”). She contains vast depths, and, thankfully, she is willing to share them.