Monthly Inspiration / November
Inspiration • November 30, 2022 • Written by Ashley Vemwell & Zachary Vemwell
A collection of three things that inspired us in November.
A QUOTE
Seneca
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
A BOOK
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
The description from Goodreads shares:
“How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend.
Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.”
A FILM
Call Me By Your Name
Directed by Luca Guadagnino.
IMDb shares:
“In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.”
As of November 2022, you can stream it for free with an HBOMax or Netflix subscription and rent/buy it from various other popular platforms.
