July Moments

Notes on inspiration, and some reading highlights from last month

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Hello, hello!

Being solely a reader on Substack last month was a great opportunity for me to focus entirely on other people’s work.

I regularly find myself inspired by what other people are sharing, and that’s not because I intend to steal their ideas, but more to do with finding connection in another person’s work. Reading encourages me to write, and it always has done.

(I can’t be the only person to have a voice pop up when you are in the middle of reading something and you hear it say something like, ‘That’s sounds like a good idea, why don’t you also write about…?)

Therefore, this month’s round-up is a little different than others as I wanted to share some of the writing that I enjoyed over the past few weeks from right here on Substack and from beyond. All of these posts have in some way encouraged me to look at something in a new light and think harder, made me laugh, and all have left me feeling inspired. So thank you!

Ps - This is not an exhaustive list, as I did A LOT of reading in July:

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From Substack

• Hannah Ashe - What is the secret to a successful career change?

• Daisy Buchanan - The Secrets of Self Promotion

• Rachael Chrystal - Is your exercise routine burning you out?

• Tom Cox - The Gun’s Always Loaded, The Horse Always Kicks

• Lani V. Cox - I’m an Anglophile

• Matt Fish - My 40 Favourite Music Videos of All Time (Part 2)

• Shital Morjaria - Finding meaning in photographs

• Michelle Neeling - Why doesn’t sadness make me cry anymore?

• Rosie Spinks - Making my son an American

• Jeffrey Streeter - Dissolution

• Pandora Sykes - On smartphones, teenagers and anxiety

And from beyond…

• The Guardian - Could you forgive your childhood bully? Katy Wix confronts a painful memory (Ouch, lots of thoughts about this)

• The Conversation - Journalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis (with interesting links to other professions, including nursing and teaching)

• The BBC - Five ways Michael Mosley made us healthier

• The New Yorker - The Case Against Travel

• Esquire - How Celebrity Book Clubs Actually Work

• The Guardian - Japan asks young people why they are not marrying amid population crisis

• Psyche - Why that hard conversation will probably go better than you think

• The New Yorker - Script of Every Movie Set in Boston (originally from 2022)

And one non-reading related recommendation. A combination of a nasty cold and a free three-month subscription in July led me to binge watch the entire series of Bad Sisters on Apple+.

If you like dark comedies, gorgeous Irish scenery, exceptional plot-twists, and a great array of jumpers, then I think you might like this too.

Thanks for reading!

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