Monthly Inspiration
August
A collection of three things we’ve consumed this month that inspired us.
Now shared with you—enjoy our inspiration from August.
1 — A QUOTE
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
Photograph by Gisèle Freund, 1968
2 — A BOOK
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
The description from Goodreads shares,
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
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."
Photo courtesy of Goodreads
3 — A FILM
Mid90s
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.
Poster courtesy of IMDb