The winter 2020 issue of Silver Digest, the glossy luxury lifestyle magazine delivered quarterly to retirement estates around South Africa, features the inimitable Sir David Attenborough, the 94-year-old traveller and adventurer who invented the natural history documentary, on its cover. His message that “[w]e have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited” is apt as the world is rebuilt in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The issue is packed with insight into topics ranging from the extent to which the pandemic is affecting us financially and what we can do about it to smaller but nonetheless pressing practicalities like moisturising hands dried out by sanitisers. The art feature on Pitika Ntuli demonstrates how galleries, festivals and artists have responded with grit and creativity to the crisis, and have found novel ways to provide our cultural lives with some nourishment.