Monthly Inspiration / August
Inspiration • August 21, 2022 • Written by Ashley Vemwell & Zachary Vemwell
A collection of three things that inspired us in August.
A QUOTE
Jean-Paul Sartre
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
A BOOK
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The description from Goodreads shares:
“From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.
This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness.. about marriage and children and memory.. about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."
A FILM
Mid90s
Directed by Jonah Hill
A24 shares:
“Written and directed by Jonah Hill, Mid90s follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.”
As of August 2022, you can stream it for free with a Showtime subscription, and rent/buy it from various other popular platforms.
