We're all familiar with matching music in our ears to what we see around us. Alignment of the senses feels good.
Our suggestion, though: try the other direction.
There's nothing quite as joyful as cranking It's Not Unusual while gliding along an endlessly dilapidated Indian railway, soundtracking Route 66 with some Mongolian throat singing, or bringing country twangs to a legal-ish border crossing into Bulgaria.
As always β the $50 survey is down below π
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Congrats to Erin, our latest survey winner!
"Chronic illness limits my ability to travel these days, so I have a newfound appreciation for the forests of northern Illinois, specifically, the oaks, birch, and ash at the house I grew up in, where my parents still live. I find that sitting out on the deck in warmer weather, and when it's cold, even gazing out of the bay window, both work well as adapted versions of shinrin-yoku, or forest-bathing, for me."
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What's it like to endure a midlife crisis when you have no kids, no spouse... and come to think of it, no real crisis? Perhaps this writer's journey is better described as a midlife meditation. Though her circumstances are very specific β a Korean American travels to Seoul to exhume and cremate her grandparents' remains β her themes are universal: ageing parents, vanishing youth, and the life-defining decision of whether or not to have kids. " Would writing about my mom cut short our trips together? Could it somehow accelerate her demise? The book, whatever it is, would have to be more than good. It would have to answer the question of what I was doing, what I was building, in lieu of a traditional family in middle age. It has to make up for my fatigue and bristly hair and age spots. It has to be as good as a husband and a child." |
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In its heyday, the park's Alpine Slide alone was responsible for 14 fractures and 26 head injuries over a two-year period. Test dummies were frequently beheaded. And as for real people, six of them died β six!!!
What's equally shocking: the nostalgia expressed by the now-middle-aged people who spent their summers getting absolutely ripped to shreds by the Cannonball Slide. "It was a time when things were tactile," says one, which surely ranks as the understatement of the century.
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Brazil's SebastiΓ£o Salgado, one of the world's greatest photographers, died last month. This recent interview shines a light on his life, his themes, and his work documenting 130 different countries β from the Amazon to Antarctica.
It also contains some of his most iconic shots.
"The best moments in my life were the moments I was going into new worlds, going to meet people, going to discover, going to see things Iβd never seen before. That was, for me, the big, big pleasure. And the second big pleasure was always the last day, when I got the last cab to go to the last airport to come back to my family, to my wife and my kids. That was always such a huge pleasure, too." |
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As always: let us know what you liked, what you'd like to see more of, your favorite Salgado photo, that sorta thing.
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