Move Like Water: A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures

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Let Hannah’s captivating prose transport you on a journey across the waves, feeling the wind and salt on your skin, and always watching out for the tantalising glimpse of a whale. You will be enthralled by her personal story, invigorated by her energy and determination, and persuaded to think deeply about the ocean, its living treasures and the human troubles they face’ The accompanying music video for "Like Water" was directed by video director Lee Rae-kyung. [29] The music video for the song was premiered on April 5, 2021, to coincide with the release of the song and that of Like Water. Prior to its premiere date, the music video was teased with two teasers. [30] [31] [32] The music video is set in a mansion filled with overgrown plants. [3] It adopts a neo-royalty cinematography. [18] Following the music video's release, Kayla Fontalvo of Glitter Magazine noted the "aesthetics of the video", bringing out Wendy's visuals in floral sets. [33] In the song Changes it actually talks about how some days we want to push further and some days we feel like doing nothing. And that often comes with a mood and an attitude towards life. Sometimes when life throws you things you can’t control and naturally your attitude is to be upset or to be disappointed or discouraged. But when you fight through those feelings that are just feelings in the end of the day you choose to put your effort into your work or into your passion and find that drive .. Life is worth living. And if you’re not going to give up the only thing to do is push forward. Interwoven with expressions of wonder at their surprising adaptability and the enormous journeys that seabirds, whales and other marine creatures undertake to preserve their species, Stowe includes frank and urgent descriptions of how human abuse of seas all over the planet has threatened virtually every life form that lives in them. Jung, Hee-yeon (April 5, 2021). 레드벨벳 웬디, 오늘 솔로 데뷔[Red Velvet's Wendy Solo Debut Today]. Sports Dong-A (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 11, 2021 . Retrieved April 11, 2021.

a b Lee, Min-ji (April 5, 2021). "Red Velvet's Wendy sings from the heart in tranquil debut album". Yonhap News Agency. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021 . Retrieved April 10, 2021. A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than penned: part memoir, part journal and — with each chapter named for a creature the author encountered either in real life or in dreams — part natural mystery tour. Granta Books is thrilled to have acquired on proposal Hannah Stowe’s Move Like Water, a beguiling and beautiful work of non-fiction about our human relationship with the sea and the creatures who inhabit it. Born beneath the sweep of a lighthouse beacon on the Pembrokeshire coast, Stowe is a marine biologist, sailor and artist and this book draws on her research at sea as well as her experience of sailing through some of the planet’s most varied waters. The book is underpinned by a powerful environmental message, but Stowe’s argument is made through the stories she tells – about swimming with her mother as a child, about listening to whale song, about being at sea at night – all of which encourage readers to fall in love with the seas as she has, to appreciate their majesty and their vulnerability. Go, Seung-ah (March 29, 2021). 레드벨벳 웬디, 청초한 분위기…희망 메시지 담은 '라이크 워터'[Red Velvet's Wendy, Pure and Innocent, 'Like Water' with a Message of Hope]. News1 (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 9, 2021 . Retrieved April 9, 2021. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Be Fearless to explore the new youOwens’s debut novel tells the tale of a girl abandoned by her family and by society, left to be raised by and in the wild of the marsh in North Carolina. The marsh is a transitional place, where land becomes water, a place where organisms must adapt to survive. The protagonist Kya is no different as she navigates the twisting, shifting waterways and makes a life for herself. Nature becomes her family and her teacher, as she finds companionship with birds, learns how to feed herself, how to survive, how to stave off the loneliness that accompanies her and develops incredibly astute biological and ecological observations. Kang, Min-kyung (April 9, 2021). '뮤직뱅크' 웬디, 존재만으로 울림..몽환의 'Like Water'[Wendy in 'Music Bank', Resonating Only with Existence, Dreamy 'Like Water']. StarNews (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 9, 2021 . Retrieved April 10, 2021.

Jeon, Hyo-jin (March 24, 2021). 레드벨벳 웬디, 4월5일 솔로 데뷔[Wendy of Red Velvet to Make Her Solo Debut on 5th of April]. Sports Dong-A (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 11, 2021 . Retrieved April 11, 2021. The images she creates on paper became very emotional and vivid for me, and I found myself more than once almost feeling as if I was experiencing what she has and finding myself reflecting on my life, my purpose, my path, and how my faith guides me in these issues. Lastly, the personal story underlying the biography brings rise to an allegory within the autobiographical tale. Bruce Lee is the most influential martial artist in modern history. He was also voted as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century by Times Magazine.a b Dongre, Divyansha (April 5, 2021). "Red Velvet's Wendy Makes Dreamy Solo Debut With 'Like Water' ". Rolling Stone India. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021 . Retrieved April 11, 2021. Abanes, Mariel (June 16, 2021). "The 15 best K-pop songs of 2021 – so far". NME. Archived from the original on June 16, 2021 . Retrieved June 17, 2021. a b c Hwang, Hye-jin (April 5, 2021). "다시 일어나게 해" 레드벨벳 웬디, 7년 기다린 보람있는 위로 'Like Water'["Rise Up Again" Red Velvet's Wendy, Seven Years of Waiting for 'Like Water']. Newsen (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 12, 2021 . Retrieved April 12, 2021.

Move Like Water" is part memoir, part nature writing. I spent much of the book trying to figure out if the balance of those things felt right—or at least how it matched what my expectation was going in. Some of it was more straight marine biology, which was interesting and certainly still worked for me as someone who has a particular interest in the natural world; but at times the meshing of Stowe's personal story with the science/nature aspects of the book felt slightly disjointed—possibly because some of that nature stuff was compelling and I wasn't sure if the personal narrative ever quite reached the same pitch. There are moments it worked really well (I thought the 'Albatross' chapter was a high point), and others that felt more constructed. A love letter to the majestic beauty and lifegiving powers of the ocean world (Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, and sailing the North, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic, Caribbean seas; mid-2010s to present): If it only takes 120 minutes a week for humans to feel the benefits of being in Nature, what does that tell us about Welsh-born Hannah Stowe who says, “There was never a time when I did not know the sea”?Stirring. . . . Fascinating. . . . Unforgettable. . . . Stowe immerses readers in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of the ocean in her spellbinding debut. The author does a wonderful job portraying her personal experiences and observations, but also the world and our relationship with it, when looking at several creatures that she has encountered and learned from in her travels and studies. She, The Sea will draw on Stowe’s experience of being a female sailor in a mostly male world to explore the rich and largely unknown history of seafaring women. Neither angry rant nor hopeless lament, Stowe balances her research knowledge with the well-founded hope that many seemingly insignificant human lifestyle choices can indeed add up to major positive changes in the health of all the world’s seas. Instead of pleading desperately for “ordinary” folks like us to become involved, she offers a welcoming invitation that promises not only challenges, but also joy and fulfillment. For me, that started with reading this beautifully composed book.